Word: avro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...island only 21 miles long and 12 miles wide, Grenada has a surprisingly impressive airport. The 9,000-ft. runway of Point Salines International Airport can easily accommodate jumbo jets from any part of the world. But the most action the tarmac gets these days is from twin-engine Avro 748 island hoppers from Trinidad and Barbados. Cuban engineers began building the airport in the early 1980s, during the leftist regime of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. One U.S. invasion and $19 million in aid later, Point Salines International is completed and, much like Grenada, sits waiting for something to happen...
...printing and, last week, published Marie Carmichael Stopes's Married Love, the first of her eight monographs on sex activity. Professionally she is a palaeobotanist and an authority on coal. In 1918 she married Humphrey Verdon Roe, who with his brother Sir Alliott Verdon Roe developed the Avro biplane. They live in Surrey with their two sons and cooperate on birth control campaigns. She first published Married Love in 1918. Since then she has sold 700,000 copies in England alone. Copies heretofore in the U. S. were smuggled or pirated (with inexact text). Its thesis is that procreation...