Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naval units, stocked the ships on Cuba patrol with 45 days' worth of supplies. In one week 350,000 ft. of Kodak photo-reconnaissance film sped to Navy and Air Force flyers. The agency summoned 50 railroad presidents to Washington, got agreement on permanent boxcar rates on military cargo, rather than time-consuming itemizing...
...windshield smashed, its passengers shaken, its cargo of coal and potatoes in every corner of the cab, the old bus finally lurched to a stop a few miles down the road where the Communists no longer mattered-at the U.S. checkpoint, a foot or two inside West Berlin...
...past decade, nearly 4,500 new enterprises have located themselves along the inland waterways. Such proud East Coast seaports as New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore are losing cargo tonnage, but river and canal ports steadily gain. Brownsville, Texas, in 1961 handled an astounding 4,100,000 tons of cotton, chemicals, citrus fruit and coffee. Columbia River towns like Pasco and Umatilla have become blossoming grain ports. Biggest winner of all is bustling New Orleans, which in 1961 boosted its cargo business 8% to a record 61.3 million tons. Serving as the connecting point between the Mississippi River complex...
...invasion. Toward last week's end. New York Attorney James B. Donovan-who had been coordinating his negotiations for the prisoners' release with Bobby Kennedy-announced that he had finally gotten the unpredictable dictator at long last to sign an agreement. The terms: a freighter, carrying a cargo of drugs, would sail for Havana; the Bay of Pigs prisoners would be shuttled back aboard four jetliners to U.S. soil before Christmas. In Florida, where thousands of wives and children waited, smiles flickered on faces long drawn by dread...
Working out of Los Angeles, Phillips has directed an immense task of construction, training and logistical coordination. For the Montana installations, the 54-ft. missiles are flown in C-133 cargo planes from an Air Force plant near Ogden, Utah, to Malmstrom Air Force Base near Great Falls, transferred in an air-conditioned building to 64-ft.-long tractor-trailer vehicles called transporter-erectors (T-E's). These crawl at 15 m.p.h. on level roads, stall to 2 m.p.h. on grades. The 150 silo sites of Malmstrom's 341st Strategic Missile Wing are scattered over...