Word: aero
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Labor government, to create some unemployment. Already the first layoffs from firms cutting back production have begun. The British workingman's reaction is predictable. "It's a shock this comes from a Labor government," says Senior Shop Steward John Recordon of London's Palmer Aero Products. "I can't see any blame for the worker in all this, but now they're going to freeze wages. This talk about workin' harder is a myth. By and large we do our best." Wilson's appeal for Britons to show some of the "Dunkirk spirit...
...that was that. With thunderous cheers chasing her, Barbra tripped backstage to her house-trailer dressing room. There, in a symbolic act, her private hairdresser sheared her customary complicated coif into a modified Mia Farrow cut that Barbra could tend herself. Then she headed home in her chartered Aero Commander...
...secretive an outfit would stand up and accept an award for running an airline under "extremely sensitive political conditions"? Yet there was George Doole Jr., Air America's managing director, smiling like a Rotarian and receiving a citation for the line's achievements from Washington's Aero Club at a luncheon in the capital last week. After the luncheon, Doole, a former Pan American Airways pilot, shrugged off newsmen's questions about his company's activities. "One wouldn't know," he said, if any particular contract was actually for the CIA. "If that were...
...voluntary training, the Harvard Regiment was organized. The Regiment, which attracted nation-wide attention, gave its 1200 student members training in military tactics, taught them how to use rifles and expected them to attend one lecture a week in military science. In March, 1916, 52 students organized an aero corps to train Harvard men as aviators to fight with the United States Army in case...
...declared flatly: "Aerospace is no longer a growing market." Today the Little expert who presided over that report readily admits: "The Viet Cong made a liar out of me." This is true-for the moment. Without question, the U.S. military buildup in Viet Nam gave new life to the aero space companies. But the industry, having learned its lesson the hard way in hard times, has also entered a new era of diversification and innovation, of producing and planning for peace...