Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, headed by Idaho Democrat Frank Church, voted last week to turn over to the Justice Department information about Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s overseas payoffs, to be forwarded to countries involved in the scandals. The Justice Department itself signed agreements with The Netherlands and Italy providing for an exchange of findings about bribegivers and -takers. They are similar to an agreement signed the previous week with Japan, where Lockheed has admitted payoffs totaling $12.5 million...
...Greenville, Texas, E-Systems has converted three Boeing 747s into "advanced airborne command posts." Crammed with electronic equipment and trailing antennas five miles long, the aircraft can be used to direct the movements of ships, planes and troops should ground communications fail in a war. The Secretary of Defense would probably be aboard one, and the President might...
...Falls Church, Va., another division, Melpar, builds radar jammers and pilotless "drone" aircraft that can be programmed to fly over an enemy's turf, photograph installations and drop bombs. Another division in Dallas makes high-technology civilian products, including tiny devices that can be used to foil bank robbers. Placed in a teller's drawer, the device will trigger an alarm when a teller removes the last bill in a stack, thus reducing pressure...
...nose like a man with a late-winter cold, he passed by the entrance guards and turned unrecognized into the room of the Presidents' wives and dresses. From behind a dummy of Martha Washington, Lindbergh peered into the adjoining hall where the world's most celebrated aircraft hung like a child's model from the ceiling. That evening he wrote in his journal: "I felt I could take it down from its cables, carry it to some flying field, and feel perfectly at home in that cockpit again...
...committee of 20 prominent businessmen, including Charles F. Adams, chairman of the board of Raytheon Company, Joseph P. Downer, executive vice president of the Atlantic Richfield Co., Allen E. Puckett, vice president of Hughes Aircraft Co., and Donald H. McLaughlin, chairman of the Executive Committee of Homestake Mining Company, have formed the national committee to raise money for the center which will utilize their extensive contacts in the business community...