Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most in wage negotiations. Human nature being what it is, the average driver will naturally expect even more, especially if he happens to live next door to, say, a senior airline captain. The pilot's $45,000 top annual pay will climb to $57,000 when the jumbo jets go into service later this year...
...more major hotels are due by the early 1970s, when tourism is expected to total 1,000,000 visitors a year. The local government is arranging financing for a $17 million runway extension that will open Kai Tak Airport to jumbo jets; it is also planning a $500 million subway and a $350 million road improvement, including a tunnel to connect the mainland Kowloon peninsula with Hong Kong Island...
Cutting Costs. Boeing has 167 orders totaling more than $3.3 billion from 28 airlines. Pan American plans to put the first jumbo jet into service across the Atlantic in December, with TWA following about two months later. By next midyear, Pan Am plans to have 25 of the 747s, each costing more than $20 million...
...standard passenger's taste, Shurcliffe says, and the peep-hole windows will make for an unpicturesque flight. The speed advantage could conceivably overcome these annoyances, but Shurcliffe suggests a more compelling limitation. Since the needle-shaped SSTs will hold fewer passengers but cost more to run than conventional jumbo jets, fares will be much higher for SST trips. And so, Shurcliffe suggests, airlines that had stocked up on fleets of SSTs might find them losing propositions...
Harvard got strong performances from almost everyone who played. 6-10 senior Paul Waickowski overpowered the not-so-jumbo Jumbos, crashing both backboards and scoring 10 points. Chris Gallagher played a steady game underneath, concentrating on defense--Harvard used a zone for the first time in this reporter's memory--and rebounding...