Word: chinook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Airmobile combat troops, their artillery and ground vehicles, will be flown into combat by the division's 400 huge LOH, Chinook and Iroquois helicopters. The division will have six twin-engined Grumman OV1 Mohawks with infra-red scanning devices, radar and cameras for reconnaissance duty. One of the division's three brigades will be trained as paratroops...
First, the commission ruled out Nez Perce because it would have killed more migrating Chinook salmon and steelhead fish than the High Mountain Sheep Dam. Some 200,000 fishermen and conservationists in the Northwest are already alarmed at the toll that such great dams in the Columbia River Basin as Bonneville and Grand Coulee are exacting on the $12 million-a-year salmon business. Second, the five Kennedy-appointed commissioners unanimously knocked down the Government's dam-building bid on the grounds that Pacific Northwest could do everything the Government proposed to do, and faster. And finally...
Under the plan, the Army division will have aircraft designed to move into the field with the troops: the Mohawk, a light observation plane equipped for day or night reconnaissance; the Chinook and the Iroquois, heavy-duty helicopters that can carry combat squads; and the Caribou, a 150-m.p.h. transport plane that can haul up to 32 men. The choppers will be armed with machine guns and 2.75-in. rockets; the Mohawk observation planes may carry conventional bomb racks and napalm as well...
...them remembered reading books by British-born Author John Masters, whose The Road Past Mandalay described his World War II experiences with Orde Wingate's Chindits behind the Japanese lines in Burma, got Masters to write several valuable reports on guerrilla warfare. Enthoven calculated that one Chinook helicopter could do the job-at less expense in men and money-now performed by 15 to 20 of the Army's workhorse "deuce and a half"' (2½-ton) trucks. And Dr. Merton Joseph Peck helped design the celebrated McNamara blueprint for reorganizing the Army National Guard and reserves...
Hereditary Vigor. Each succeeding year Donaldson has graduated groups of fingerling salmon, identifying their class by clipping their belly fins. In 1955 came a startling break; 48 of the fingerlings released in 1952 came back from the ocean full grown. This was revolutionary; chinook salmon normally take four years to reach maturity. Donaldson selected spawn from the best of the 48, nursed the hatchlings into fingerlings and launched them into the sea. The fast-growing trait proved permanent; in 1958 a startling proportion of the class of '55 returned full grown to the hatchery. They were...