Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mouthpiece, asked if I could come over and type my story up before going off to Pushkin Square. Alas, B.J. was at the office, so I handed the typed copy to her there. Too bad. I felt I had let the side down. I liked all the mumbo-jumbo stuff, but my hand writing betrayed...
...with all the airlines following the same script, price wars have broken out. Eastern sparked the current New York-California fare battle in which a one-way ticket now costs $129, compared with the old coach fare of $317. At the discount price, the airlines lose money unless the jumbo is at least 90% full. Many are not. TWA, American, United and Pan Am matched Eastern's price. Similar air wars have been fought on other popular routes, such as San Francisco-Los Angeles and New York-Miami...
...decided to return home, although he had a $38,000 charter to pick up refugees. An angry exile pulled out a pistol and held him in his cabin a full day. The Cuban military presence also became more visible. Soldiers patrolled the banks of the harbor with automatic rifles. Jumbo choppers whipped across the bay by day, and searchlights swept the waters by night. Suddenly, the rescuers had become captives...
...troubles Lewis Orde and Bill Michaels, co-authors of The Night They Stole Manhattan (Putnam; 334 pages; $11.95). After all, as they note, this is "the most audacious hijacking of all time." (British readers might disagree.) It also involves "the biggest ransom in history": a cool billion plus a jumbo jet for the surviving perpetrators. In fact, heisting Manhattan turns out to be less farfetched than it sounds. A few well-planted bombs all too easily close train and subway access; destruction of six major bridges and four tunnels completes the island's separation from the mainland. Meanwhile...
...traumatic as the upset was for Boeing, however, it was equally painful for the city of Seattle. With the Puget Sound's largest single employer facing ruin and the tarmac at Boeing's Everett assembly plant, the biggest such plane factory in the world, choked with unsold jumbo jets, Seattle's entire economy went into a slump. A grimly cynical highway billboard on a road heading out of town summed up the prevailing gloom: "Will the last person leaving Seattle please turn out the lights...