Word: riveters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money to finance a pet project that should keep Ghana under the yoke of colonialism for years to come: a $196 million dam and power plant to be built on the Volta River. (According to an Administration official. President Kennedy intends to send a mission to Accra "to rivet some things down" before approving the project.) Meanwhile, a 19-man Ghana delegation was heading for Russia-where Nkrumah himself had just paid a call-to wrap up economic and cultural agreements. Ghana was also preparing to invite a Soviet military mission to train the country's small...
SLOPPY INSPECTION of Electras before they were delivered to airlines brought a $6,000 fine to Lockheed from the Federal Aviation Agency. Among things found in wing fuel tanks were screws, rubbish, vacuum cleaners, a rivet gun. Since violations were uncovered, Lockheed has tightened up its inspections to FAA's satisfaction...
...shot down 47 enemy aircraft in World War I and was wounded 17 times, was never seen again. Pending inspection of the instrument-panel fragment, French authorities remained skeptical that it came from L'Oiseau Blanc. But a former French flyer now living in Maine said that the rivet construction of the fragment indicated that it was from a plane of the same vintage...