Word: millions
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...figures quoted from the National Transportation Safety Board on the relative safety of riding big airlines v. little airlines [July 18] appear impressive at first glance: the "bigs" kill only .25 people per 100 million passenger-miles while the "littles" kill 7.65 people per 100 million passenger...
...converting their figures to fatalities per 1,000,000 flights. We can say, within reason, that the average flight for the bigs nets 50,000 passenger-miles and that the average flight for the littles nets 100 passenger-miles. The bigs then fly 2,000 flights for 100 million passenger-miles, and the littles fly 1,000,000 flights for 10 million passenger-miles. The bigs are therefore killing 125 people per 1,000,000 flights while the littles are killing only 7.65 people per 1,000,000 flights...
...those subtleties of dress that are supposed to separate the Main Line from the wrong side of the tracks. Enriched by demand for such symbols, Gucci has opened branches in London, Paris, Manhattan, Palm Beach and Beverly Hills. Last year the company increased its assets to an estimated $28 million...
...proposal had been strongly opposed by universities, for whom stocks and other properties are an important source of endowment. Harvard, for example, usually receives about $4 to $5 million a year in such donations, and in 1967-68 an exceptionally large gift boosted the total to $16 million...
...lawyer, and Peter Lawford, as Gunther, are amusing sidelight. Potter is a lovable, drunken slob, and the scene on the bar car of the New Haven is classic. Lawford is sophisticated, intelligent, ambitious--and totally superficial. He's almost enough to make me give up working on my first million...