Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Forbes' brilliant defensive play--16 saves--went for naught, as the Jumbo offense never got on track. The lone Tufts goal came with only 50 seconds left...
...soccer is your thing, then head out to Tufts for the women's varsity soccer team's encounter with the Jumbo's at 11:00 a.m. Saturday morning. The women's sub-varsity squad will be in action closer to home when they host Wellesley, also at 11. This game will either be at the Business School or behind Palmer-Dixon...
...race and scrapped plans for its new-generation DC-X-200, which would have competed directly with Boeing's 767 in tomorrow's big market for mediumrange, wide-bodied jets. Instead, McDonnell Douglas will concentrate on a stretched and upgraded version of its long-range DC-10 jumbo...
...airline that launched a thousand quips about my son the pilot, is flying low?in part because of its pampered pilots. A plethora of labor disputes, including jealousy in the ranks of many of the line's eight unions over the fact that a few jumbo-jet pilots earn as much as $11,000 a month, forced management to ground its planes for three weeks in April. The lockout cost the company $15 million, but its problems did not end there. Among the others: a labor force of 5,500 people that some critics claim is too large...
...were killed on the spot, most burnt beyond recognition. Another 150 or more lay writhing in the havoc, grotesquely scorched. In all, the fire storm that devastated Los Alfaques had killed 144 by week's end, and left some 75 injured, many critically. Not since a pair of jumbo jets collided and caught fire on a runway on the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife in March 1977, killing 582, had there been a burn disaster of such proportions...