Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tons. But its designers estimate that Megalifter would require a takeoff speed of no more than 70 m.p.h. and a runway distance of only about 2,400 ft. to become airborne, and could cruise at 205 m.p.h. Many of its components, such as the cockpit, engine controls and landing gear, are identical to the C-5A's, which would reduce design and manufacturing costs for the giant craft...
Boycott Gallo Wines: Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farm Workers, is coming to Cambridge to help put a full-scale Boston-area boycott of Gallo products into high gear. The UFW leader, who has guided a long battle to win the rights of California farm workers, will take part in a demonstration Saturday at 1:30 p.m. by the Fresh Pond Shopping Center. Last year Gallo signed a sweetheart contract with the Teamsters in an effort to escape facing a struggle with the UFW over workers' rights, but the tactic hasn't been very successful. The Gallo boycott...
...Turkish paratroopers jumped into the cloudless sky. Floating into the welcoming Turkish sector of the city, they were gathered into waiting cars, ambulances and even a bread truck and driven to fighting stations. One paratrooper, a 29-year-old Turk named Sami, smiled broadly as he unbuckled his gear and slipped out of his brown chute. "This makes me tremendously happy," he said, apparently having been well coached by his officers. "We are just here to look after the welfare of the Turkish community...
TRADE. Soviet-American trade has jumped from $200 million in 1971 to $ 1.5 billion in 1973, with the dollar-ruble balance 7 to 1 in favor of the U.S., which buys Soviet vodka, platinum, diamonds and chrome ore and sells oil-and gas-drilling equipment, machinery and electronic gear, including computers. The Russians have been eager for loans and technological know-how, and so far they have got some of both. Only in May Nixon intervened with the Export-Import Bank to approve a $180 million loan for eight Soviet ammonia fertilizer plants and the attendant gear to move...
...protect their guest, the Israelis organized the most intensive security system in their history. Communications gear and bulletproof limousines were flown into the country by U.S. Air Force transports. An army of 19,000 policemen, soldiers and government agents were on guard. Troops lined the 32-mile route from the airport to Jerusalem. A cordon sanitaire encircled every area that the President visited. His movements were shadowed by three helicopters-a command center, a troop carrier and a flying medical team...