Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offstreet parking and streets-and nearly 500 miles of freeways snake their way through the city's environs. Los Angeles County now has 3,900,000 autos for a population of 7,000,000, and the number is growing faster than the human population. There is little public transport; less than 8% of Angelenos travel to and from work by public transport v. 54% of New Yorkers. The auto, of course, is ihe main contributor to the city's infamous smog, which keeps spreading-despite a recent requirement for exhaust devices-simply because the number of vehicles...
...these demands seemed unreasonable, they were not much more so than the ones made by 22,000 Transport Workers Union machinsts employed by Pan Am and American Airlines. Under pressure to outdo the rival I.A.M. machinists, the T.W.U. has since July deadlocked contract negotiations with obstinate calls for a 30% wage hike and ghoulish threats of what may happen if their demands are not met. Said one T.W.U. official last week...
...something of a pioneer aircraft. The two-man, 1,650-m.p.h. plane is equipped with the world's first afterburning turbofan engines, has a revolutionary swing-wing-the sort envisioned in one of the designs for the nation's first commercial supersonic transport. The wing, which is crucial to the multipurpose role planned for the TFX, enables the plane, in effect, to redesign itself in flight. The plane sweeps back its wings in a dartlike configuration for supersonic flight, extends them to full span to slow itself for landing on aircraft carriers...
...circle in the vicinity of North Viet Nam to refuel the U.S. Air Force jets that fly more than 60% of all American raids over the North and Laos from four other Thai bases. Also to be stationed at U-Tapao are a troop carrier wing and an air transport unit, for funneling American men and materiel into the area. The thick new strip will be the only one in the region designed to support the B-52 bombers, which now fly 5,200-mile round trips from Guam for their missions in Viet Nam. Though there are no present...
Rising Gloom. With 60% of the nation's commercial air transport grounded, problems of all kinds continued to grow. In California, servicemen returning from Viet Nam on combat leave found themselves stranded for up to 72 hours at Travis Air Force Base. As many as 100 at a time curled up to sleep on sofas or in makeshift barracks while they waited for hitchhikes aboard military planes passing through the base. Mail deliveries that normally move by air were slowed; shipments of everything from electronic equipment to exotic flowers were delayed for lack of air cargo space. Businessmen hitched...