Word: equipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Manager, Thomas J. Mc-Clernon has suggested in recent statements that the MTA may soon settle this difficulty, but Tyler is scarcely so optimistic. He stresses, in fact, that the Authority must not only find and build a practical and extensive system of new yards but erect and equip a new repair shop as well before it can even consider selling the Bennett St. property...
Gaston Stanton responded that he was all in favor of Minow's plan to require TV set manufacturers to equip their product to receive ultrahigh frequencies, thus opening up some 70 additional channels and creating a new field for new broadcasters. Some of these stations presumably would be run by educational institutions, and some would be able to appeal to intellectually coherent audiences smaller than Gunsmoke pulls...
This ability to spot a missile is the result of a mammoth effort. It took 2,900 firms two years to build and equip the Thule station and three years to build a similar station at Clear, Alaska. Both were turned over to NORAD on New Year's Day, 1962. A third station under construction at Fylingdales Moor in England will complete this Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS...
Entire communities were moving into action as never before. The Kingston, N.Y., common council called for bids to equip 15 acres of limestone caves, in which mushrooms are presently grown commercially, as atomic shelters. The city council of Livermore, Calif., voted to build seven giant shelters, enough to hold all of the town's 17,250 citizens. In Washington
Diem's army could only prepare for greater dangers. Captured documents indicated that Ho Chi Minh's Red guerrillas had a major new campaign in the making. Massive new U.S. aid is already arriving (TIME cover, Aug. 4) to equip new battalions of South Vietnamese troops. To get the manpower it needs in uniform, Diem's government last week announced new draft laws extending the present term of military service from 18 to 24 months and ordering 20-year-olds to report for duty...