Word: null
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trouble in the Civilian Sector. Still, the European combines have yet to profit from rising civilian demand. Orders for Caravelles, Tridents and null have been disappointing, and British, French and West German manufacturers are struggling to get a medium-distance "Airbus" off the drawing boards. Plans now call for delivery in 1971. In the meantime, U.S. companies may well corner most of the market for subsonic jet transports...
Secrecy. Disclosure of Spain's contract with null marked the end of 21 years of secret and almost byzantine negotiations. For as soon as Spanish geologists found the rich phosphate vein back in 1963, Generalissimo Franco's ministers forbade publication of any hint of the discovery. They had good reason for their reticence. The political situation in northern Africa has long been touchy: both Morocco and Mauritania claim the Spanish Sahara. Occasionally, they have gone so far as to threaten to back up their claims with force. Moreover, Spain has been under mounting pressure...
...Mount Fuji last March; moreover, that disaster led to the discovery of hairline tail fissures that briefly grounded a number of the company's 21 other 707s. The fact that BOAC has placed new orders for four Boeing 707 freighters and six Boeing 747s-and no additional null - is too much for many an M.P. The airline, charges Tory Stephen Hastings, has become a "Boeing shop window...
Mauve silk umbrellas were hoisted over the heads of General and Madame de Gaulle, while 200 dusky, nubile Cambodian maidens scattered jasmine petals from beaten-silver bowls in their path. The entire Cambodian jet air force-four null - flew past to take De Gaulle's salute...
...apprehension that spread through the city last spring when a group of Russian fishing vessels was sighted off the coast. Instead of merely repeating the frightening rumors, KING sent a reportorial team aboard one of the trawlers. After two days of filming the ordinary life aboard the ship, the null were able to convince viewers that there was no conspiracy afloat...