Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times the firepower of his Korean War counterpart; behind him stand rank upon rank of mobile mortars and howitzers that can be called in by air as quickly as he needs them. Overhead hover helicopters bristling with machine guns, rockets and automatic grenade launchers; above the "gunships" circle jet fighter-bombers armed with searing napalm, white phosphorous and bomblets that can unleash deadly patterns of tiny steel pellets. In no other war has American weaponry so quickly matched the demands of a difficult tactical terrain. From the swamps of the Mekong Delta, where 30-ft. patrol boats packed with unsinkable...
...majority of them move within the same community or market area-they have simply traded in the old house for a better one. The same is true in all other fields. Less-developed countries may welcome a hand-me-down DC-3, even in the time of the jet. But the U.S. expects the best and can produce it. The price may seem like waste to some, but it can also be construed as "research" cost from which the whole world may ultimately profit...
Much of the thrust has come from the airlines' aggressive selling of what Delta Executive Vice President Thomas Miller calls "the total-distribution-by-air concept." Because of cheaper insurance, lighter crating, fewer warehouse charges and, most important, jet-quick delivery, air freight is often less costly than water, rail or road transport-even though air rates are considerably higher. Using air shipment for most of its electronics products, increasingly diversified Raytheon has cut delivery time from ten to twelve days to 48 to 72 hours-and therefore is selling off its field warehouses in the bargain. Sears...
...Hara shifts with ease from the gilded but ghastly life of the West Coast and jet-set Manhattan to the grubby, proletarian reality of small towns in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. His inept storekeeper, Lintzie, in Gibbsville and his Mrs. Kenneth R. Schumacher of Swedish Haven, Pa., are every bit as convincing as his faded movie stars and pop singers going to fat. Their predicaments, in fact, are often more convincing since O'Hara well knows how it is that bizarre events can occur in the most banal surroundings...