Word: prop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough just yet, but it was a considerable improvement. In eight strikes last week, U.S. F-100 Super Sabres, B57 Canberras and prop-driven Skyraiders plastered Viet Cong concentrations, leaving scores of guerrillas dead in their wakes. The planes dropped tons of newly developed anti-personnel bombs, including an aerial version of the artilleryman's cannister: a big bomb casing that opens after release to pour out a string of smaller bombs on a 100-ft. line...
Under his agreement with Garber's Travel Agency, Sohn had been prepared to charter a prop-jet plane from Boston to London, leaving after commencement and returning during the first week of September. He would have charged $240, compared to the HSA's current peak-season minimum of $269 for a flight to Brussels...
Sohn planned to obtain his plane from British Eagle Airlines, a regularly scheduled carrier between London and the continent. British Eagle purchased the prop jets that the British Overseas Airways sold after last summer, according to Sohn. All HSA European charter flights in 1964 used the BOAC planes, but this summer's contracts are with other European lines...
...head. Government succumb to rebellions if they are weak and unpopular. If we are concerned that Thailand, Malaysia etc., will fall to the Communists, we should attempt to make them strong, stable countries by offering large-scale economic aid and encouraging political reform. Our futile attempts to prop up backward governments in South Vietnam will not save governments in Southeast Asia, if they too are backward...
...joint Vietnamese-U.S. strike aborted because of bad weather, was carried out the next day. Two dozen prop-driven Vietnamese Skyraiders and an unspecified number of U.S. jets from the big Danang airbase 375 miles north of Saigon plastered a major guerrilla staging and communications center at Vinhlinh, five miles north of the 17th parallel. Leading the Vietnamese wave was South Viet Nam's Vice Air Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in a white crash helmet streaked with orange, a violet scarf and a black flying suit. Ky's plane took four hits, and he himself...