Word: jetted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...biggest of the new Thai bases, all leased individually from the Bangkok government, is U-Tapao, part of the giant sea and air complex at Sattahip, 80 miles southeast of Bangkok. U.S. Air Force KC-135 jet tankers already fly from its 11,500-ft. runways, and Washington hopes that Thailand will soon approve the transfer to U-Tapao of the B-52 heavy bombers that now must make a 5,000-mile run from Guam to bomb in Viet Nam. Fearful of direct North Vietnamese retaliation, Thai officials are wary about granting such approval. "If the B-52 question...
Only 45 minutes out of Miami by jet, the Bahama Islands have long been one of the favorite playgrounds of Americans. Composed of 700 islands that are washed by the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, the Bahamas have a population of only 140,000 people, 85% of them Negro. Yet for many years the islands' fate has been held firmly in the hands of a tight little group of white businessmen known as the "Bay Street Boys," after the main street of the capital of Nassau. The group's two dozen members controlled both Bahamian commerce...
...housing, resort and commercial development that will include a U.S.-British navy undersea research and training center. Pan American's Juan Trippe is developing a section of Eleuthera, has thus far built a private golf course, a 100-room hotel and a nightclub, and has even added a jet strip and two flights a day out of Nassau. Other developments are being pushed on Abaco, Great Exuma, Cat Island and Paradise Island...
...financial problems and the fact that its assembly lines at its Long Beach, Calif., plant are inefficiently laid out, Douglas was not lacking in merger offers. After all, the backlog in orders for its big jets has now reached $3.2 biilion, part of it for the DC-8-62, which is the world's farthest-flying commercial jet, with a range of 5,750 miles. Thus, even as Douglas' money problems got worse, plenty of bidders beside McDonnell showed up. Among them were Signal Oil & Gas, Fairchild Killer, General Dynamics and North American Aviation...
Died. Donald Campbell, 45, British speed seeker; in the crack-up of his jet-powered boat; on Coniston Water, England (see SPORT...