Word: 1970s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force, the world's fifth largest-and soon it will increase even that impressive percentage. It has just been chosen by the Swedish government to build 800 Saab-designed Viggen multipurpose jet fighters, a force that will form Sweden's main line of defense during the 1970s. The Viggen project will be the largest industrial undertaking in Sweden's history, involving an expenditure of $1.6 billion over a twelve-year period...
...AMX30, and The Netherlands grumbled that some of the AMX13s it bought have become immobilized with cracked gun mounts. Other European armies are not so sure that they want any new tanks at all, preferring to wait until a more sophisticated joint U.S.German tank is introduced in the 1970s...
...Europe, bridge building is becoming almost as commonplace as house building. Britain has built 120 new bridges in the past five years as parts of its new highways, and figures that by the 1970s it will have built 280 more. Germany now completes 1,000 new bridges every year, at this moment has under construction nine spans more than 3,000 ft. long...
...inhabitants who have become guinea pigs in a six-month Federal Aviation Agency test. The test is to determine the effect upon groundlings of flights by supersonic transport aircraft, which the U.S. is about ready to develop, when they start crisscrossing the country in the early 1970s...
...that is likely to continue through 1964. Next year RCA will bring out a rectangular tube that will do away with the cropped corners on the screen and make the TV cabinet shallower. Portable color TVs are due in about three years. Looking toward the late 1960s or the 1970s, manufacturers are also working on practically priced home microwave ranges that bake a potato in five minutes, ultrasonic washers that clean without suds or water, and compact thermoelectric appliances that heat, cool and freeze without the aid of moving parts...