Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Federal Aviation Administration, which figures that U.S. passengers wasted 10 million man-hours just waiting (see box). Some of this congestion was caused by the 32,-310 military aircraft and some by the airliners themselves, but most of it by the 104,706 light planes stacked up in rush-hour traffic. The FAA estimates that at the nation's 9,950 airports only 17.6% of the takeoffs and landings are made by commercial planes, while 77.8% are made by smaller private and executive planes. At major metropolitan airports, the percentages for these "general aviation" planes run lower...
...Gold Rush. A few years later, Paramount cast Bob in The Big Broadcast of 1938. Hope remembers it as "the first major picture that didn't win me an Oscar-and they say history repeats itself." About all that anyone else remembers is the song that he introduced in it, Thanks for the Memory. In 1939, Hope, Crosby and Dorothy Lamour were signed for The Road to Singapore (two other comedy teams-Burns and Allen, and Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie-refused to touch...
...late-show fans of the Road cycle know, gags took precedence over plot, locale and plausibility. Lamour would pop up in snowy Alaska during the Klondike gold rush wearing a sarong. The main goal of Hope and Crosby seemed to be to step on each other's lines, and the script was a dead letter. Once, when the writer happened onto the set, Hope called: "If you hear any of your own dialogue, yell bingo." A typical exchange, from Road to Utopia -Lamour: "You're facetious." Hope: "Keep politics out of this." Yet by 1962, when the great...
Shadowy Offers. Several publishers and individuals thought enough of this material to rush to Bolivia to bid for it. Michele Ray, the French freelancer who was held for three weeks by the Viet Cong, offered $400,000 from a mysterious source on the grounds, as she put it, that the "last thing Che would have liked was to have his diary in the hands of Americans." For a while, the bidder most likely to win was a consortium headed by Manhattan-based Magnum Photos. Offering $125,000 for the right to publish excerpts from the diary, the group included...
After Britain devalued the pound last month, the gold-backed U.S. dollar faced a rush of gold-buying speculators who figured that the free world's key currency was next. Last week, well after the gold rush had subsided, President Johnson saw victory. "The speculative attack on the system," he said, "was decisively repelled." The price? "A relatively small cost in reserves...