Word: roomier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Caviar, Tea or Vodka? At 10:55 a.m. Moscow time, Egorov fired up his four rear-mounted engines. Less than 20 minutes later we were airborne, cruising at 34,000 ft., doing 560 m.p.h. The tourist section, frankly, turned out to be roomier and more comfortable than tourist in most European and some American airlines. The six-across foamrubber seats had arms that lifted to provide a little extra room; pulling down the translucent smoked-plastic window shades was like putting on dark glasses. Soon after takeoff, the stewardesses came down with refreshments-tea from a family-sized aluminum...
...below the surface, carrying divers in a pressurized chamber. Under water, the divers can emerge through a bottom hatch, work outside from two to six hours, then return to the diving chamber. Still pressurized, the bell is hoisted back on deck. There it is attached to the roomier dormitory, where the divers can eat and sleep, still under pressure, before returning to the depths. Using this system, Cachalot divers can work steadily for as long as a week without having to go through decompression...
Bigger & Faster. The Concorde's backers hope that once the plane is in service, it will rack up a big percentage of the market before being challenged by the U.S. supersonic transport due aloft in the mid-'70s. Roomier than the Concorde (292 passengers v. 132) and faster (1,800 v. 1,450 m.p.h.), the Boeing 2707 has already attracted 125 options from 26 interested airlines. While the British and French admit that the American SST will eventually dominate the North Atlantic-currently accounting for 42% of all international air travel-they argue that there will be plenty...
...door hardtop with swept-back body, the Javelin boasts the kind of features that the sports-minded car buyer seems to prefer-streamlined hood, bucket seats, split grille and sunken door handles. Also available are such options as a zippy 280-h.p. engine and racing stripes. Roomier than the Mustang, but with a price in the same range (about $2,500), the car itself not only stands to catch on, but, says Company President William Luneburg, its sporty look should also "give the showrooms a traffic boost" for other lines...
West Germans currently are showing an alarming preference for roomier foreign models, which now control 15% of the market compared with 11.6% only a year ago. Getting the biggest new slice of business are French cars, once considered junk in Germany. Warehouses are bulging with unsold German autos, while vehicle exports during the first three months of 1967 were off 15.3% from the same time in 1966. VW factories are producing about 1,000 fewer cars daily than they did in 1966, and since Jan. 1, workers have had 24 enforced days...