Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese extortionists, pimps, gunmen and gamblers, they took advantage of a break in the hastily imposed curfew to murder a few Malays. One had his head shattered by a hammer, another was scalped by the ragged edge of a broken bottle, and an Indian photographer was found with a cargo hook in his forehead. Before the week was out, 21 Chinese and Malays were dead, 454 injured, and the handsome, prosperous city itself had temporarily become a ghost town. Armored cars carrying cops and troops whispered through Singapore's old colonial arcades over streets covered by a snowfall...
Last year no fewer than 19 foreign and 66 scheduled domestic airlines were serving Latin America, one of the greatest proliferations of aviation service anywhere in the world. All told, the lines traveled some 5 billion passenger-miles, carried over 94 million ton-miles of cargo, and could point to some impressive traffic growth: 175% in the past ten years, v. 117% for the rest of the world. Argentina, Chile and Colombia have all more than tripled their passenger traffic since 1954; Uruguay is up almost 400%, while Brazil ranks third in the free world (after the U.S. and Canada...
...FREIGHT CARLOADiNGS: Bernard Baruch is reputed to have said long ago that the surest way to gauge the whole economy is to "watch freight carload-ings." That was long before trucks and planes captured such a large share of the changing cargo market, and also before freight cars were built bigger to carry more cargo. Result: freight loadings often go down-as they have for four of the past ten weeks-at the same time that total cargo tonnage goes up. For such reasons, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the nation's largest, last week announced that it will no longer...
...Washington that the only way to ease the chaos in Laos must come as part of an area-wide, rather than a country-by-country, solution. This would inevitably test American willingness to carry the war to North Viet Nam. Just in case that becomes necessary, five U.S. Navy cargo ships steamed toward Thailand last week loaded with tanks, trucks, armored personnel carriers and ammunition. The troops to use them could always be airlifted...
...problem, France's Dassault Mirage III-V will pack eight small Rolls-Royce jet engines thrusting downward. When well in the air, a larger jet will take over and push the plane forward at supersonic speed. Its designers admit that the vertical engines will be dead cargo most of the time, but they think vertical engines will have less effect on performance than dual-purpose engines that are too powerful for efficient horizontal flight. A German V/STOL, the Bölkow, Heinkel and Messerschmitt VJ-101C, varies the French formula slightly by having two main engines that are tiltable...