Word: loads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loading took the better part of two days as the longshoremen, who boast they can load 100 tons an hour, secured one 64-ton crate every 20 minutes. This week, weather and the courts permitting, Le Baron will be towed to a point 238 miles off the Florida coast and scuttled in 16,000 feet of water...
Shunning the Cartel. Icelandic is faring much better than competitors on the lucrative North Atlantic run. In the first five months of 1970, the little line's passenger volume increased 41%, to a record 71,500 passengers. Its average load factor is an enviable 69%. Last year it earned $1,095,000 on revenues of $23.5 million. The biggest attraction is Icelandic's small fares. A round-trip excursion ticket between New York and Luxembourg costs $259 in the peak season and requires no minimum stay. For turboprops the fare is $239. The cheapest equivalent flight...
Oversold Idea. Another cause of today's problems is yesterday's lack of advance planning, especially on a regional basis. Some utilities underestimated the appeal of air conditioning, which alone has changed the peak load period from winter days to summer nights in many parts of the nation. Others oversold the idea of "all-electric living"; electric heating uses three times the energy required by conventional heating. Meantime, consumption of electricity increased with population growth...
Next week the airlines will carry the millionth passenger to travel on a 747. Pan American World Airways, which has the largest fleet of the planes, has been flying them 64% full but can come out ahead with only a 40% load. Largely because of the 747, Pan Am turned in a profit in May after eight months of losses. Trans World Airlines calculates that the cost of carrying one passenger for one mile comes to 2.3? on the 747, compared with 2.7? on the Boeing 707 or Douglas DC-8. The big plane has done so well that some...