Word: depot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terminal point for the pipeline lies somewhere in the vicinity of Tchepone, a key depot along the diverse network of roads and supply routes running from North Vietnam into South Vietnam and Cambodia. Repeated bombing over the past four years has failed to halt the flow of material through these Laotian "sanctuaries...
...Senate investigating subcommittee of his final battle. His enemy was a perfumed, persistent Vietnamese entrepreneur named Madame Phuong, whose friends included some of the U.S. officers and service club noncoms under investigation by the Senate panel (TIME, March 8). Assigned to the massive 25-sq.-mi. Long Binh supply depot as post commander in 1968, Castle discovered that Brigadier General Earl F. Cole, a deputy chief of staff at the depot, had authorized Mme. Phuong to open an on-post steam bath and massage parlor. Cole has since been demoted to colonel and stripped of his decorations by the Army...
...Phuong did not give way easily. "She threatened me in a polite way," said Castle. "She said she had several general officer friends and she would go see them." Castle began to receive anonymous telephone threats. Eventually, the colonel was wounded in a Viet Cong attack on his depot and sent home...
...thoughtful," it did not keep him from experimenting. He considers himself something of a trucking consultant and has even endowed a chair at the University of Miami for transportation studies -partly to ease his own regret at not having had a college education. The Ryder corporation operates a 300-depot maintenance system that services other fleet owners as well as its own trucks, and has an engineering consulting division that advises truck buyers on their design needs and markets its own computer system. Last week Ryder and a consortium of Miami warehousemen began operating a storage-control system that keeps...
...depots were about 10 ft. by 15 ft. in area and dug perhaps 6½ ft. into the ground, like bunkers. The tops were made of logs, with camouflage over them. They were full of ammunition, rice, medical supplies and gasoline. Rubber pipes connected a pump in each depot to a nearby river, so that drivers could get water for themselves and their trucks. Signs instructed visitors to PLEASE PARK THE TRUCK, HAVE YOUR MEAL, YOUR DRINKS AND PLEASE SIGN IN AND OUT. Another sign read: THE ROAD IS HARD, BUT WE WILL MAKE...