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Word: jumbos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the transportation committee of the Wayne County board of supervisors recommended a ban on jumbo jets at Detroit's Metro Airport. To expand the ramp, terminal and baggage facilities, it was predicted, would cost an estimated $6,000,000-and there is simply no money available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: The Trouble with Jumbo | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

After three periods yesterday the varsity soccer team was on its way to dropping its season opener to a scrappy. Tufts team, but Solomon Gomez and Charlie Thomas broke through the Jumbo defense to score three goals in the last twelve minutes and give the Crimson a 5-3 victory...

Author: By Martin R. Garay, | Title: Soccer Team Beats Tufts In Sloppy Season Opener | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...Tufts dominated the first period, outscoring Harvard 2-0. With the game barely three and a half minutes old, the Jumbos scored on a hard dribbler that fooled Crimson goalie Bill Meyers. The second tally came at 16:20 when a Jumbo forward drove through an open lane, found Meyers alone and put the shot past...

Author: By Martin R. Garay, | Title: Soccer Team Beats Tufts In Sloppy Season Opener | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...second quarter, Solomon Gomez scored the first of his two goals to cut the Tufts lead in half. Four minutes later, after a Jumbo halfback fouled Charlie Thomas. junior Pete Bogovich drilled the penalty kick past the outstretched fingertips of the Tufts goalie to tie the score...

Author: By Martin R. Garay, | Title: Soccer Team Beats Tufts In Sloppy Season Opener | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...jumbo jets may cut operating expenses about 25%. But before the money-saving giants start taking off, airmen expect damaging labor strikes. The first strikes will probably hit in early August and could force some cancellations of vacation flights. As much as 45% of an airline's operational expenses consists of labor costs. Every additional wage increase would cut closer to the quick. In the longer run, some mergers seem almost inevitable to reduce the problems of climbing costs and too much competition for too little traffic. If the U.S. can get by with only four auto manufacturers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Mayday in the Market | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

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