Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week El Al President Mordechai Ben-Ari is expected in Seattle to sign up for a second Boeing 747 jumbo jet. He already has options for two of their earliest SST's to be built, and hopes for permission to extend El Al's service to Miami, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles, in addition to New York...
Campione figures that Aerhotels will get most of their business from the new 450-passenger jumbo jets. Following the trend started by TWA, which shuffles packaged tours into Hilton hotels, and Pan American, which feeds customers to its Intercontinental chain, Aerhotels will serve Alitalia travelers...
...sales of cans made entirely of aluminum. Another promising market is aerospace. Alcoa provided most of the 1,000,000 Ibs. of aluminum used in the Saturn V moon rocket, is also supplying 105-ft-long heat-treated aluminum plate for the wings of Boeing's new 747 jumbo jetliners...
Villanova's coach Jim "Jumbo" Elliott said, "I wasn't surprised by Murphy's finish. I knew after last night's performance in the half-mile (when he was a close second to teammate Dave Patrick) that he had another good race left...
Looking ahead to even more difficult days, when jumbo jets carrying as many as 490 passengers start landing, Heathrow has announced a $25 million expansion plan. A T-shaped pier with telescopic ramps, capable of loading and unloading seven giants at a time, will be waiting for the Boeing 747 jets, which should be coming down the runways by December 1969 or early 1970. In addition, passengers are to be whisked to and fro on moving sidewalks that will connect boarding lounges with the airport's departure building and a new arrivals terminal, both situated approximately 300 yards away...