Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since July, when the election "campaign" officially began, Costa e Silva has barnstormed virtually all of Brazil's 22 states, made scores of speeches, shaken tens of thousands of hands. He has promised his audiences almost everything: a balanced budget, control of inflation, more imports, more exports, better transport and communications, more electric power, better education, health and housing. His aim, he proclaims, is to promote "an authentic democracy, in which the rich are richer and the poor are less poor...
Infra-Red Sky Lab. One of MRDC's proudest accomplishments thus far is an aerial reconnaissance laboratory, built aboard a Royal Thai Air Force C-47 transport. Equipped with cameras and infra-red sensors, similarly equipped planes have been making thermal maps showing the heat patterns of heavily forested areas in southern Thailand, which is presently plagued by Chinese-led bands of Communist terrorists. Once the normal heat pattern of an area has been established, trained operators of the secret equipment aboard the C-47 can quickly spot any thermal changes on the map - changes that could be caused...
Police were investigating reports of a red pick-up truck seen in the area, which may have been used to transport the stolen articles...
...itself-with "authority to plan, budget, program and control the research and development effort of the Air Force"-ten years before becoming its first chief in 1961. Under him, the command managed a wide assortment of complex programs and projects that ranged from aerospace medical research to combat and transport aircraft, from an automated ground guidance system for interceptor operations to military communications satellites. The Systems Command also worked out administrative techniques, now being widely copied by other Government agencies, for shepherding new technical projects from the planning stage to full-fledged operation...
...make it the world's second biggest aircraft-engine manufacturer - next only to the U.S.'s Pratt & Whitney. For cash and stock worth $175,400,000, Rolls-Royce bought out Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd., which already has the engine contract for the Concorde, the British-French supersonic transport presently scheduled for test-flying in 1968. Bristol Siddeley has been losing other business, though, including the engine contract for Britain's TSR-2, a tactical reconnaissance plane which the government decided to cancel last year. Meanwhile, Rolls-Royce has been rolling with its new Spey jet, which...