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...World War II, modified DC-3s served as troop and cargo carriers, hospital planes and even as a kind of bomber. Dwight Eisenhower hailed the plane as one of the five pieces of equipment that did most to win World War II. Said Founder Donald W. Douglas, 83, at commemorative ceremonies in Santa Monica, Calif., last week: "In a parody of Ol' Man River, she flies...
...year. The first of the 122-ft.-long, delta-winged ships now being assembled at Rockwell International in Palmdale, Calif., is about the size of a conventional DC-9 passenger jet, but double the weight. It will lift a pay load of 65,000 Ibs. in a cavernous cargo bay big enough to hold two of the fighter planes that flew from the decks of World War II aircraft carriers. This capacity, and the fact that the shuttle is reusable, should make the orbiter quite economical by space-age standards. On Apollo missions, it cost $600 to lift each pound...
Last week Israel formally handed over control of the oilfield to Indonesian officers of the United Nations Emergency Force. Two days after the Israeli pullout, Egypt formally took possession again. Within hours a tanker had been loaded and was under way with a cargo of the first oil from the lost fields of the Sinai to head for Suez in eight years. TIME'S Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn was at Ras Sudr when the oil to Egypt started flowing. His report...
...hypothesis the police intend to investigate further: that I.R.A. sympathizers in Ireland smuggle weapons and explosives aboard the QE 2 at Cork, where she sometimes stops on her trans-Atlantic route. The illicit cargo is kept undercover during the Manhattan turn-around and then smuggled off the ship when she returns to Southampton. British authorities also suspect that weapons smugglers are receiving financial and other help from U.S. sympathizers, especially Irish-American enclaves along the East Coast...
...three Administration bills, the trucking proposal is the most sweeping. It would end many inefficiencies, including the prohibition against certain classes of trucks' carrying cargo on return trips, or "backhauls." Other provisions...