Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which are being assembled at General Motors' Cleveland plant. The Sheridan, the most revolutionary tank since World War II, is the U.S.'s first with a cannon capable of firing both conventional shells and guided missiles. It can be air-dropped from C-130 or C-141 cargo planes (by eight 100-ft.-wide parachutes) without damage, swim like a turtle across water obstacles. After testing, it will go into operation within a year. An even more versatile vehicle, the MBT-70 (for Main Battle Tank of the '70s), is being developed jointly...
...adversity, then the Cunard Steam-Ship Co. Ltd., the grand old lady of transatlantic travel, should thrive. With unusual candor, Sir Basil Smallpeice, chairman of the Cunard group since November, recently stated the dimensions of adversity. Passenger operations have lost $40 mil lion in the past five years. Cargo ship ments and other sources of revenue turned the loss into a slight profit, but, said Sir Basil, Cunard has only been kept going by the sale of investments and property and by tax recoveries...
...could help but help. "His liberality bothers me," said Denver County G.O.P. Chairman John Wogan Jr., but he felt impelled to add: "Since the purpose is to win, we might have to take him." "Let's face it," said New Mexico's Republican Gubernatorial Candidate David Cargo. "Even in New Mexico, 70% of the population is now urban. Javits would add something important to the national ticket...
Other shortages have arisen with the step-up in military charters for hauling troops and cargo to Southeast Asia. The military pays only about one-third as much per seat as civilians do, but because the lines can count on close-to-capacity loads and greater utilization of planes, the profits on military flights are not much lower than on civilian ones. Biggest military-airlift supplier is Pan Am, which already has 16 of its 100 jets on Viet Nam duty under a $44 million contract. Pan Am has cut its summer-peak transatlantic schedule from 288 to 266 flights...
...keep on earning after prime daytime passenger hours, United helped Boeing jigger its tri-jet 727 to set the entire cabin area on eleven quickly detachable pallets that can be moved over small rails and rollers in the plane's floor. To convert the 96-passenger plane for cargo service, workmen roll the pallets out of the cargo hatch on to a van, fold up the hat racks, then roll in 20 tons of cargo on eight pallets from another van. Total time: 30 minutes. In all, eleven U.S. and foreign lines have ordered 93 of the $5.1 million...