Word: loading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade were climbing aboard their planes. Throughout the night and into the day, the big C-123s and C-130s lumbered into Pleiku, disgorging men and machines, Jeeps, trucks, cannon, ammo and supplies. Then off the planes winged to Bien Hoa for another load. By next evening, a full brigade of American troops was in the trouble zone. The U.S. forces swiftly headed up Route 19 to set up a "blocking position" between the encircling Communists and the South Vietnamese relief column. With this muscle behind them, the stalled South Vietnamese task force...
...Oakland airstrip to its destination. The scheduled shuttle between the Oakland and San Francisco airports should prove the perfect opportunity for the Hovercraft to show its stuff. Cheaper to run than helicopters and far more versatile than hydrofoils, the amphibious craft can cozy right up to an airplane, load up and transport its 15 passengers to a terminal on the other side of the bay so smoothly that they will not know when they are riding over cement or sea. Not that the ship is a veritable magic carpet. The engine makes so much noise that passengers have difficulty carrying...
...reason was given for the resignation, although Litchfield, 51, is still recuperating from a heart attack and is under doctors' orders to reduce his work load (among his other jobs: chairmanship of the S.C.M. Corp., formerly Smith Corona Marchant). Litchfield leaves with the legislature still debating whether to put privately endowed Pitt under state control and with trustees divided as to what he has actually accomplished. Banker Frank Denton brusquely dismissed his plans as "pipe dreams." But Trustee Chairman Gwilym Price, accepting the resignation, wrote Litchfield: "You have done more for the University of Pittsburgh in a decade than...
...Thai economy. It not only calls for crop-support programs, but also urges repeal of the 25% export tax on rice, by which the government gets 8% of its revenues. Farm taxes would be replaced by excises on tobacco and urban property, helping distribute the nation's tax load and its income more equitably, aiding Thailand's industries by giving farmers more power to purchase manufactured goods. The government publicly opposes the idea, but some officials privately favor...
...freighters would never have to dock. Each would carry its cargo in 50 large barges stowed in its hold; when the mother ship approached port, giant deck cranes would lift off the barges, which would then easily maneuver into port. Meanwhile, the mother ship would lift on a fresh load of barges and turn right around for another voyage. By this method, Prudential estimates, cargo would be loaded at the rate of 1,000 tons an hour, compared to 1,000 tons a day loaded on conventional cargo ships...