Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter accompanying the refund stated that the organization plans to improve service by scheduling more jet flights, and that HSA is always concerned with the welfare of its patrons...
Though he neither promised nor publicly promoted any outward escalation in the U.S.'s military involvement, Johnson did authorize at least a limited upsurge without quite seeming to do so. It was only after two U.S. jet fighters were shot down last week during an attack on a key Communist supply-route bridge in Laos (see THE WORLD) that the President's manipulations came clear. For two months before the attack, the White House itself has secretly sanctioned rigidly controlled missions over Communist territory. But last week's attack was the biggest ever-and it was launched...
...antiaircraft crews guarding the bridge on Route 7, ten miles from the Laotian village of Ban Ban, were probably not hankering for extra work. Suddenly they had their hands-and gun sights-full. Screaming in low from surrounding hills was a long, swift file of supersonic U.S. Air Force jet fighters, which loosed a blizzard of bombs on the bridge, blowing it to bits...
...area is dotted with camouflaged antiaircraft batteries designed to protect the key bridge near by, a 50-yd.-long span across the Nam Mat River used by the Reds in their supply line from North Viet Nam. When the Communists shot down a camera-carrying jet, the U.S. started sending armed escorts. When one of the latter was downed, U.S. fighter-bombers clobbered the offending Palhet Lao guns. Recon sweeps continued, and when fired upon at times, fighter escorts dished out more "suppressive fire...
...make a guess. I know for a fact that last year a group chartered a plane from NYC to LA for a cost of $155 per seat round trip, compared with $205 for HSA this Christmas. The same group chartered a plane from NYC to Copenhagen for $272 (jet) and $216 (propeller), and to Madrid for $251 (jet). These are last year's prices and it will be a month before I can obtain this year's figures from that organization. My guess is that HSA is charging between five and ten per cent about their cost, and since over...