Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obvious effort to depreciate whatever our soldiers may have accomplished in Cambodia, you say: "The 1,700 tons of captured ammunition is a huge haul [June 1]. Yet two-thirds of it is .51-cal. ammunition used for antiaircraft purposes . . ." As the father of a helicopter pilot in Viet Nam, may I ask just what the hell is wrong with that? If all this ammunition had been intended to shoot the brats who are burning buildings, would you have depreciated its capture...
...Penn Central's passenger service has been a particular plague. The railroad still runs 1,280 passenger trains a day-35% of the nation's total and 75% of the remaining long-haul sched-u'es. By Penn Central accounting, round-trip income from one New York-St. Louis train, for example, recently averaged $5,295 a day; but wages and other operating costs ran to $10,191. To pare such losses, the Penn Central two months ago petitioned the ICC to end all passenger service west of Buffalo, N.Y., and Harrisburg, Pa. Indignant protests from localities...
...Nixon also requires a measure of popular support, or at least quiescence, if he is to continue to govern at home. Therefore it seems very likely that the next few months will see the Administration try to settle in for the long haul in Vietnam by smoothing out the rough edges of the war and trying to make it a little easier for the American public to accept. The draft can be "reformed" to take the pressure off troublesome college students. In time the policy of phased reductions might actually reduce the troop commitment in Vietnam...
...based on a use rate of 17 tons per battalion per month. A few days later, as if by magic, the estimated use rate was said to be one ton of such ammunition per battalion per month. By such judicious juggling, intelligence analysts overnight increased the value of the haul to an admirable 41 month supply...
...tons of captured ammunition is a huge haul. Yet two-thirds of it is .51-cal. ammunition used for antiaircraft purposes; the small-arms ammunition used by the average paddyfield-variety Viet Cong totals only 75 tons...