Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other experiences could match the exhilaration of rolling down the highway at 65 m.p.h.; fewer still could top the pride of telling the family that the latest raise would permit the purchase of a still bigger car, with air conditioning. With a car, one could live anywhere, work anywhere, travel anywhere and not have to bother about commuters' tickets or timetables. The car was something to plunge into debt for, boastfully display to friends and neighbors, anxiously take for a checkup whenever it began to cough...
This week begins what may be the 1970s' last extravaganza of American air travel: a record 8,000,000 vacationers taking off on 12,800 flights a day to spend the holidays with family and friends or at sun-warmed resorts. By Jan. 7, the splurge will end, and so will a 28-year era of soaring expansion for U.S. airlines. That day, new federal fuel allocations will start forcing flight cancellations and crew layoffs on a vastly greater scale than anything the industry has ever before experienced. Airline stockholders, oddly, could benefit by the profits of forced efficiency...
...Shift. Many Americans will not have the money to travel. The scheduled layoffs in the auto industry reached 175,000 workers, who will be idle for a week or so around Christmas as plants close to shift production from standard-sized autos to fuel-saving small cars. The Big Three announced last week that November sales totaled 772,795 units, down a startling 118,000 from a year earlier. Layoffs are also spreading into supplier industries: Davidson Rubber Co., the largest employer in Dover, N.H., will furlough 200 of its 1,400 employees for at least two months because...
...comet of 1456 and many of the others that influenced ancient history were one and the same: the celestial visitor that became known as Halley's comet. A 17th century protégé of Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley was convinced that comets travel, like planets, in closed orbits around the sun. Using his mentor's formulas, he calculated the paths of comets dating back to 1337 and found that three-those of 1456, 1531 and 1607 -had roughly the same orbit as the comet of 1682 (which he had seen as a young man). Halley concluded that...
...Student Travel Agencies has averted a possible dilemma by chartering a Saturn Airlines flight to accommodate most students with reservations on two HSA Charter Flights cancelled earlier this week...