Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contract to airlift troops to Viet Nam would be increased fourfold, to $30 million in 1967. And Los Angeles-based Continental announced a $64 million order for ten more jets. In all, Continental is investing $196 million to add 30 planes by 1968, doubling the size of its jet fleet...
Feisal lives instead in a smaller economy model. Saud's beloved fleet of Cadillacs has given way to a pair of Chrysler New Yorkers, and with a deftly democratic touch, Feisal always sits up front next to the driver. To get just as close to the people, Feisal holds a daily majlis (assembly) and invites everyone-from the richest merchant to the scruffiest Bedouin-to come and get his gripes off his chest. "We believe," says Feisal, "that we represent democracy in its highest form, though its structure may be alien to Western ways...
...flew him to a 90-minute meeting in Washington, then on to a 90-minute conference in Philadelphia, finally to a two-hour session in White Plains, N.Y. By 5 p.m. Morris was home, and EJA, which has the only all-jet, executive "lease contract" fleet in the U.S., had logged in another contented customer...
...thrust comes largely from the immensely profitable jet and turboprop aircraft, which now comprise 90% of the scheduled airlines' 2,180-plane fleet. To keep pace with demand, the lines hope to increase capacity by 30% before year's end. They have placed $1.2 billion in orders for new jets this year-and planemakers may have trouble producing them...
...longer swimming comfortably in the seas of population spelled out by Mao Tse-tung as the necessary environment for guerrilla warfare. Whatever dubious benefits the Viet Cong might once have brought South Vietnamese villagers, now they bring, by their presence, bombs from the omnipresent fleet of 1,000 U.S. planes wheeling through the Viet Nam skies. As a result, in many a village the Viet Cong are no longer welcome, and some 900,000 villagers have fled V.C.-controlled areas. The Reds have been forced to step up taxation, rice levies and recruitment in areas they control, reaching down even...