Word: sst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some 5,000 Boeing employees, the company's new directions have already satisfied an important social need. After the collapse of the SST project, Boeing officials predicted that Seattle employment would sink to 29,500 by year's end. Instead, thanks primarily to early successes in its socially oriented experiments, Boeing plans to end 1971 with a work force...
...past E.D.F. has opposed noise pollution by the SST and fought for environmental safeguards on the trans-Alaska pipeline. Now the group has 43 suits in the courts or under consideration, concentrating in two general areas...
...year-old vote; the group sparked a heavy write-in campaign, lobbied on Capitol Hill and organized ratification coalitions and lobbies in many state capitols. Though Gardner asks for no special credit, Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin commended Common Cause for its help "in rallying opposition to the SST and winning the fight...
...Nixon Administration officials placed calls around the country to sympathetic bankers and industrialists. Those men, in turn, phoned their Congressmen and urged them to vote for the bailout. Machinists and scientists bought newspaper ads. Aerospace workers, some of whom lost their jobs after amateur lobbyists effectively organized an anti-SST drive last spring, rallied to Lockheed's side. They launched letter-writing campaigns, made speeches to P.T.A.s, even organized a boycott of Wisconsin cheese and beer to put the heat on Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, chief opponent of the Lockheed rescue...
...asked myself: As a paying passenger, would I want to fly in an SST, even at the expected premium price of 30% above regular economy class? The answer was yes. It was not a quick or easy yes, nor would it apply on the routes I fly most often, such as the North Atlantic. But given the opportunity to avoid a 14-hour flight to Asia, I would bend strongly in the direction of the SST. "This is a normal plane that will get you there in half the time," a French aerospace official said. Why should we want that...