Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victims had one thing in common. All three were opponents of the Trujillo regime, and all were highly vocal partisans of the burgeoning new oppositionist group, the National Civic Union. Cabrera dis tributed the U.C.N.'s Santiago newspaper. Martinez and Clisante had helped transport people to a U.C.N. rally at Puerto Plata only the day before they died. When Clisante's body was turned over to his relatives, the head was beaten almost to a pulp. An enraged mob burst into the hospital morgue, draped a Dominican flag over the corpse, and paraded it through the streets, crying...
...Honda bought a supply of small surplus motors that had been designed for the portable communications equipment used by the defeated Imperial army, began to adapt the engines to power ordinary bicycles. With Japanese transport facilities still knocked out by the war, the motorized bicycle scored such a hit that Honda soon found himself unable to keep up with demand...
...General Dynamics. 15th largest industrial corporation in the U.S.. had suffered a first-half loss of $39.5 million. More sobering yet was the fact that General Dynamics was suffering from a difficulty that besets the biggest names in the commercial airframe industry. Cause of the trouble: the jet transport...
...because of a wing-flutter problem in the 990. So far. General Dynamics has sold 114 jets and delivered 38. many of which, through controversial maneuvers (see below), have turned up in TWA's fleet. General Dynamics Chairman Frank Pace Jr. gloomily predicts that "the potential commercial jet transport market indicates no likelihood of full recovery of losses from future sales.'' What's more, warns Pace, the General Dynamics jet program will almost surely engender more "excess costs'' before it is finished...
...they struggle to shake off the financial burdens of the subsonic jet, the airframe makers are haunted by another specter: the projected supersonic jet transport. To build a plane tough enough to withstand Mach 2 speeds would pose such immense problems that Boeing estimates development costs at $800 million. The most optimistic guess of the potential market for Mach 2s is only 450 planes by 1975; one longtime airline operator puts it as low as 50 ("a national prestige item"). There is every indication that the airframe manufacturers do not need two burnings by jet to learn their economic lesson...