Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trade of advertising," Samuel Johnson said, "is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement." Run that statement up any flagpole along Madison Avenue and a thousand admen will haul out their double-barreled Purdeys from Abercrombie & Fitch and pepper it to pieces. Not improve! The hallmark of advertising is improvement: bigger, better, brighter, newer, whiter, faster, cleaner. That goes for the advertising industry as well as for the products, and 1965 is unfolding for U.S. agencies as a bigger, better and brighter year than any before...
...medium-range tri-jet 727s and 30 "quick-change" 727s with interiors that can be converted from passenger to cargo fittings in 20 minutes. The new 727s will enable the airline to squeeze an anticipated 31 hours more of daily use from each plane by converting it to haul freight at night...
...Saunders restored the Norfolk & Western to health as its president, was brought over to parent Pennsy in 1963. He has traveled up to 5,000 miles a week by plane and private railroad car, personally calling on coal and grain shippers to push the idea of "unitized" trains to haul their shipments faster and more cheaply...
Elections are not easy in the Congo. To reach the 80% of the population, itinerant polling officers will have to haul the ballot boxes from hamlet to hamlet by pirogue and dugout canoe, or by land along elephant tracks, winding jungle paths and narrow bush trails. Moreover, the rebels have killed thousands of civil servants, producing a desperate shortage of trained administrators who could serve as polling officers...
...Good Haul. The other U.S. pilots were picked up in equally daring operations. An Air Force helicopter based at Nakhon Phanom in northeast Thailand zipped over to Tchepone, a Laotian town overrun by Pathet Lao and Viet Minh regulars, picked up the pilot of a downed U.S. Thunderchief from the jungle. In a night operation inside North Viet Nam, another hovering helicopter used electronic strobe lights and flares to find a U.S. pilot in the jungle and rescue...