Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Card Sharks "Anything to declare?" "Yes," said the driver who had just crossed the Ambassador Bridge from Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, "bubblegum cards." Pulling over and opening the trunk of his car, he proudly pointed to stacks of shoeboxes containing thousands of picture cards of baseball players. To Canadian customs officials, it was one of the strangest cargoes they had ever seen. To Frank Nagy, 49, it was simply a representative sample of his 500,000 baseball cards, a collection that places him in the front ranks of those who participate in one of the U.S.'s most popular...
Surrounded by neatly lettered placards proclaiming. "In Your Hut You Know He's Right," "Let Saigons be Saigons," and "Beat Northeastern," Popsie lead the march with elan, stopping briefly to tip his trunk to the seemingly unflappable statue of John Harvard, before losing interest in the proceedings entirely...
Since it's impossible to keep thieves from getting in--smashing the windshield is a convenient last resort--it's not wise to leave anything of value inside a car. If it has to be in the car, it's safer in the trunk than on the seat...
...public benefits that might result." One possible consequence, it said, would be reduced competition on routes between Phoenix and San Diego, and between San Diego and Los Angeles. In addition the opposing brief noted that American, with Western, would have an excessively large share (22.7%) of the total national trunk airline market, yet would not gain "any significant cost reductions," as had been argued by American President George A. Spater. American and Western insist that their common routes in the Southwest are not a major overlap and that their combined size would not likely be greater than that of United...
...claim, while self-serving, is not without historical basis. The 22 trunk carriers certified in 1938 have shrunk to eleven today, and the four largest airlines-United, American, TWA and Eastern-have 70% of the domestic business. What the CAB must now decide is whether this trend, which could well result in the end of what competition remains among the major domestic carriers, is desirable-or, if it is not, whether it could be reversed. What neither the Federal Government nor the airlines themselves have yet produced is a viable overall plan for making sense of a business that remains...