Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year). Between accepting medals, he flew the Spirit of St. Louis to every state in the Union, pleading the future of aviation in a high, reedy Midwestern voice. Though he turned down million-dollar contracts for movies and cigarette endorsements, he accepted offers from Pan Am and Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. (later TWA), to become a consultant. Stock options made him a millionaire almost overnight. The Minnesota farm boy and barnstorming pilot moved more and more in the ambiance of the very rich. Among them he found his wife-Anne Morrow, daughter of ex-Morgan Partner Dwight Morrow...
...medical treatment in the U.S." How many such children were found by the three-doctor mission sent to Viet Nam by the Committee of Responsibility to Save War-Burned and War-Injured Vietnamese Children? Thirteen, for now. Eventually, reported one of the doctors last week, the program would probably transport from five to ten children a month to the U.S. for plastic surgery or prosthetic-device fitting too complex to be carried out in the western Pacific...
...hell of a job," warned Federal Aviation Administrator William F. ("Bozo") McKee, "you sure stand to lose a hell of a lot of money." McKee was talking to negotiators from Boeing and General Electric, shortly after the terms of their FAA contract to build the U.S. supersonic transport were settled. Signed on May 1, and made public in detail last week, the contract is, according to McKee, "one of the toughest that has ever been written." It is certainly one of the biggest...
Impressed by Lockheed's breakthrough, the Army may order 500 or more of the $1,000,000 Cheyennes if prototype testing is successful, have them in the field by 1970. Meanwhile, Lockheed is working up other compound-plane ideas. Among them: a 400-m.p.h. military transport with folding rotors and an intercity "air commuter" to whisk 70 passengers from one downtown district to another at 300 m.p.h...
Broken Glass. To make its deadline, Expo hired its own expert to speed works through customs, assigned four officials and two armed guards to meet each art work. Heated trucks were on stand-by duty 24 hours a day to transport the pieces to the Expo site because, as the Canadian advisory committee's general secretary, Jean Jacques Besner, says, "We could not risk allowing any of these lovely ladies by Delacroix to catch cold...