Word: 3s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Right from the start, the pickings were pretty fair. The French went on buying Mali's peanut crop at above-market prices, Britain furnished four DC-3s to get Air Mali into business, West Germany's Krupp advanced $6,000,000 in credits to permit the Mali government to buy 300 trucks, and the U.S. anted up $2,500,000, mostly in cement and gasoline. Entering enthusiastically into the competition, the Common Market nations jointly granted $2,700,000 for irrigation and medical supplies, and Red China signed a barter deal: Chinese machinery and building supplies for Mali...
...week in the Southeastern states. Superior stands apart from all other airlines: it was organized by the golden-winged Air Line Pilots Association in an attempt to make a scheduled line knuckle under to its wage demands. The target: Southern Airways, a small feeder line that has 23 DC-3s, some 5,000 miles of routes between Jacksonville, Fla., Memphis and Charlotte, N.C. and a tough boss, Frank W. Hulse, 48, who founded the line 17 years...
Bouncing over Africa's mountains in chartered DC-3s and over its hills in Jeeps, dead tired, 15 Ibs. lighter than when he started, and with recurring eye trouble, Billy Graham wound up his seven-week "Safari for Souls" last week, still going at a pace that often left his followers limp. His only major difficulty was insomnia, and he remarked that he spent most of his sleepless hours in prayer: "I figure God had some reason for keeping me awake...