Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take only one example) the walls of the opera house are padded with red material which-as in leathery club bars-is buttoned in panels with rows of brass tacks. But real tacks would be lost in so big a space. The solution? Fake brass tack heads, Oldenburg jumbo, four inches across...
...retain everything he produced, initialed, touched or was sent. The spectrum of use to future historians is, to put it mildly, wide: the papers range from still-classified material on Viet Nam to a covering note sent by Richard Nixon in 1951 to accompany a 3-lb. box of jumbo deluxe dried California figs, a gift from the California Fig Institute...
...airlines have been reeling from a combination punch: their costly, shiny new jumbo jets arrived just as a recession cut back the predicted increase in air travel. Last year the U.S. trunk carriers ran up a total loss of $179 million; TWA alone went some $60 million into the red. As always when in trouble, the airlines resorted to a wide-ranging exploration of merger possibilities-the classic, though not always successful industry device for rescuing the flounderers. Some carriers have already reached merger agreements. Currently pending before the Civil Aeronautics Board are three proposed consolidations that could strongly affect...
...which are stealing a growing volume of North Atlantic passengers by offering fares as low as $90 one way. Though traffic between E rope and North America on the sched uled lines is normal this summer, many airlines are having trouble filling the additional seats on their newly acquired jumbo jets...
...only do we not meet friends regularly at funerals, we hardly see them at all. Who has time, with all the American tourists flooding the country? In one week last month, nine relatives from the U.S., four close friends and two friends of distant cousins were in Israel. With jumbo jets disgorging hundreds at a time, and more than 100 flights per day going in and out, Transport Minister Shimon Peres complains, "We prepared for 3,000 tourists a day. We did not expect 10,000." Tourism in the occupied territories, from