Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insurance companies until 1990; two weeks ago, Trans World Airlines negotiated $324.6 million of new loans from banks and insurance companies as part of a record $800.2 million package that includes refinancing $475.6 million of outstanding debts. Thus within a fortnight, three of the nation's four largest trunk carriers tapped the tightening money market for some $700 million in fresh funds. Cost Squeeze. Almost all of that bundle will go to pay for stretched jet transports, jumbo jets and supersonic aircraft already on order. Scheduled U.S. airlines last year took delivery of 388 new jet planes-a rate...
...declining to overturn the convictions of two men who had been arrested attempting to pick up a trunk full of marijuana last summer, Superior Court Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro declared, "In my opinion a proper inference may be draw from the evidence that there is a relationship between the use of marijuana and the incidence of crime and antisocial behavior...
...since, U.S. airlines have been competing for traffic with an ever proliferating and vastly confusing array of cut-rate fares. As a result, more passengers than ever are crowding aboard planes. But the cheap promotional fares are putting such a squeeze on profit margins that last week four major trunk carriers agreed that the time had come to dump some of the discounts...
...collection of rare pipes owned by Campus Tobacconist Stephen Zachary Weinstein. Next day, when Green had not returned to his dorm in Philadelphia, a search was begun, and Weinstein reported that the student had never shown up. Last week Green's body was found in a green steamer trunk bobbing in the Delaware River...
Hammell, who then left the shop, said that Weinstein told him next day he had killed Green "by choking him and hitting him in the head with a board." Weinstein gave him $50 to help stuff the body into a trunk and load it in a rented car, Hammell told police. Then Weinstein, Hammell and two teenage friends drove into the countryside to find a burial place. Hammell said that the ground was either too muddy or too hard, and they decided to return to Philadelphia and throw the trunk in the river...