Word: sst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...priorities nearly doomed continued development of the U.S. supersonic transport aircraft. After the Senate voted nay, the plane was temporarily saved by a House-Senate compromise extending funds through March of this year. With that mandate about to expire, the battle has been joined once more. This time the SST's supporters have mounted a highly professional counterattack that threatens to overwhelm the aircraft's critics...
...four-week, $150,000 pro-SST blitzkrieg is mainly the work of an ad hoc National Committee for an American SST, supported by the aerospace industry and some 30 labor unions. It has placed full-page ads in leading newspapers. One pictures a boy holding a model of the SST and asks: "Will SSTs really pollute his world?" The answer, claims the ad, is that one SST moving at 1,780 m.p.h. "will emit no more pollutants per mile than three compact automobiles traveling at 60 m.p.h." As for sonic boom, the craft will be banned over land...
Other ads appeal to nationalistic sentiment. One shows a Soviet SST and is headlined: "Announcing international SST service-the best that rubles could buy." The real question for Congress, the ads contend, is "Will America be left on the ground?" The Russians have inadvertently aided that argument by-running two-page ads in Aviation Week & Space Technology, a U.S. magazine, urging aerospace executives to buy the Soviet TU-144 SST. They also announced that their plane will go into regular passenger service in October...
Wassily W. Leontief, Lee Professor of Economics and a leading opponent of the SST, hailed the House vote. "As an attempt to improve transportation, the SST is barking up the wrong tree. The U.S. does not need a plane which benefits only a few rich people," Leontief said...
Expressing his faith that the political system would "peacefully end the Indochina War," McCloskey said, "I am tempted to say that a House of Representatives that can vote down the SST can also end the war this year...