Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tall, white-haired Tunner, 55, now a Virginia gentleman farmer, ran the Allied airlift over the hump between India and China in World War II, went on to mesh U.S., French and British aircraft into the effective lift that broke the Red blockade of Berlin, and after that to direct the Korean war air supply shuttle between Japan and Korea...
...though strictly controlled, blind flying. By sticking tightly to proper headings, noting elapsed time and speed, the pilots should have no trouble hitting West Berlin. Once there, haze-piercing, coded ground lights could direct them into Tegel with no complex letdown pattern. Tunner's key to a successful lift in bad weather: discipline must be rigid; the pilot can have almost no discretion...
Stealing art is a branch of burglary suitable only to the most skilled criminal, who can recognize the best work, lift it without damage, and-hardest of all-dispose of it through intermediaries, either to a collector who will keep the secret, or back to the owner or the insurance company. But with all the news of high prices at art auctions and of recent art burglaries all over, a lot of crooks of the wrong kind are getting into art theft. Last week the police were looking for the vandalous and amateur burglar or burglars who jimmied the front...
...carry the strengthened Army to the fighting front, the Navy will shake the mothballs out of some 20 transport ships and amphibious vessels, increase its sea-lift capacity from 1½% divisions to 2 divisions at a time. To make sure the troopships get safely to their destination, the Navy is strengthening its anti-submarine-warfare forces by adding one aircraft carrier, putting an undisclosed number of sub-killing submarines back in service, ordering to active duty some ASW reserve squadrons, and retaining a dozen destroyers that were scheduled for retirement. In addition, the Navy will keep on duty...
...spending increase will be unevenly distributed. California, where the Pentagon places 24% of its procurement orders, will get better than a $1 billion lift. Long-depressed Detroit will be aided by the speedup in spending for trucks and tanks. The Boston area, headquarters for 80 Government space contractors as well as many other suppliers, will also gain. At least three slow-rolling industries will perk up: textiles, as the Government increases its yearly $230 million budget for uniforms and cloth; machine tools, which are used more for making conventional weapons than missiles; railroads, which will move men and machines...