Word: airlift
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Lacking the ability to mount a serious airlift to the embattled Congo, the Soviet Union could not. if the U.S. and the U.N. took a vigorous stand, intervene militarily without risking either a big defeat or the kind of all-out war that Nikita Khrushchev seems not to want...
...planes at this time was "a terrible mistake." The Stratocruiser was unmarked except for its serial number, which traced back to a New York charter outfit called Seven Seas Airlines, Inc. The company denied that it owned the Boeing, said it was engaged only in a food airlift to the Congo...
...addition to juggling the economy and foreign crises, President Kennedy last week ordered a step-up in U.S. deterrent and airlift capability, and asked Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to produce by month's end a full reappraisal of the U.S. defense setup. Along the way, Kennedy registered a solid boost in G.I. morale by rescinding Dwight Eisenhower's order calling for a cut-down in the number of military dependents abroad to slow the drain on gold...
...increase the airlift capability. Defense will add 53 troop-transport planes to its purchasing program. Thirty of these planes will be Boeing C-135 jets (military version of the 707). Deliveries at the rate of two per month will begin in June. The remaining 23 planes will be Lockheed null turboprops, which will be turned out at a fast eight per month, beginning in July. In all, the aim is to outfit the military with long-range (4,000 miles plus) craft with a 25-ton payload that can operate on relatively short, 6,000-ft. runways...
...AIRLIFT EXPANSION will bring $120 million in business to Boeing for 30 C-135 jet transports and $80 million to Lockheed for an additional 23 C-130 turboprop transports. Jet deliveries will start in June at the rate of two a month; C-130 deliveries, already at the rate of four a month, will be boosted to eight...