Word: airlifters
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...spokesman refused to say why the FBI thought Zimmerman and Wright were involved in the airlift...
Three single-engine planes parachuted nearly a ton of supplies to Indians at Wounded Knee on April 17, The Boston Globe reported last Wednesday. Seven young men were involved in the airlift, the story said...
...capital's central market is well stocked with imported goods, fruits and vegetables. But there is only enough diesel fuel to power the city's water system for 19 days, and the electricity supply is dependent on the arrival of further convoys up the Mekong. The airlift announced by the U.S. this week is limited to JP4 jet fuel for the Cambodian air force's tiny fleet of about 20 helicopters...
Belton K. Johnson, a director of the King Ranch in Texas, had visited the Brussels meat market and reported: "Those women down there were knocking each other around paying twice as much for beef as we pay in the U.S., but we could airlift beef out of Amarillo, Texas, into Brussels tomorrow morning. But they won't let us do it. Agricultural expertise is one of the best things the U.S. has to sell. Yet here in Europe we are fighting with one hand tied to our back...
...electricity generators, blacking out half of the city and stilling the whirling fans and air conditioners in the midst of scorching 95° heat. If the harassing Communist blockade could not be broken, U.S. officials said, food, fuel and ammunition would have to be brought in by a U.S. airlift...