Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greater problems are in their own high-flying costs. Though the builders insist that the Concorde will be in service on schedule in May 1971, expensive engine and wing changes have had to be worked into the original design to guarantee a 4,000-mile range with ample fuel reserves, and thus quiet complaints that the plane was too short-legged for reliable, nonstop transatlantic flight. Those modifications, along with a "stretched" cabin which boosts passenger capacity from 118 to a more profitable 136, have helped send development costs soaring from the original estimate of $500 million to $1.1 billion...
Everywhere, U.S. bulldozers are turning up the rich Thai soil to build roads, fuel pipelines, stockpile depots, communication nets. This mushrooming complex of support facilities is designed to support...
...major infusion of fresh American military power if it is ever required. The funnel for that infusion of men and equipment will be a new deep-water port and mammoth airfield at Sattahip on the Gulf of Siam. With its pair of 11,500-ft. runways, fuel pipeline to the railheads at Don Muang, giant ammunition storage piers, the $75 million Sattahip complex is the largest military construction job in all of Asia, phasing into operation over the next two years...
...ready this summer, large enough to hold at one time three squadrons of fighter-bombers, 20 KC-135 jet transports, one squadron of air-defense fighters and 120 C-123 transport planes, not to mention the B-52s which could fly from its extra-thick runways. Sattahip's fuel pipeline system will eventually extend to Korat, where the U.S. Army's 9th Logistical Command has already stockpiled enough guns, tanks, trucks and ammunition for a full division. U.S. and Thai engineers are constructing the Bangkok Bypass, a strategic highway to carry vital traffic northward past the capital...
...unanimously passed the toughest air-pollution bill ever, including fines for violators ranging from $500 to $1,000. The same week, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller sent a bill to the legislature that would permit the state's Air Pollution Control Board to establish even stricter fuel standards...