Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buck Rogers-style Army "jet-flying belt" that is expected to transport a soldier over the treetops at 60 m.p.h. for as far as ten miles. Weighing a total of only some 150 Ibs., propelled by a Lilliputian fanjet engine and fed by a back-riding fuel depot of seven to ten gallons of kerosene, the new jet is aimed at superseding a current experimental backpack that is operated by rocket thrust and has a range of only 860 ft. Though it will be a year before the new system can be proved feasible, scientists at Bell Aerosystems Co., which...
...giant high-speed hydrofoil capable of a speed of 120 knots and able to cross the Atlantic from New York in 35 hours, reach Viet Nam from San Francisco in 72 hours. Powered by gas and turbine engines and traveling on cushions of air, the ship could quickly transport troops to trouble spots, be adapted as a high-speed aircraft carrier or as a moving platform for deploying anti-missile missiles and ICBM batteries at sea. Though the program is still in the model stage, the Navy believes that it can have a seagoing version within a decade, feels that...
...bill, which had just been made public. Limiting wage increases to 3½% annually and levying fines of ? 500 on trade-union leaders who break the guideline, the bill naturally irks many labor chiefs-especially Cousins, who is on leave as chief of Britain's biggest union, the Transport and General Workers (1,460,000 members...
Egypt has so many civil servants that U.S. consultants have recommended firing 60% of them in order to relieve the bureaucratic jam. Egypt's poorly maintained air, rail and road transport systems are in a sorry state. Such basics as rice, matches and meat are scarce. The cotton crop, afflicted by a bollworm plague this year, is in hock to Soviet-bloc countries to pay for the delivery of factories, which the Egyptians manage inefficiently. In fact, there is only one thing that really works in Egypt-the Suez Canal. Because its foreign-exchange earnings are vital, the canal...
...last year. In the same period, the number of passengers traveling by air across the Atlantic rose from 1,000,000 to 4,000,000 annually. Sir Basil is determined not to let Cunard founder. His philosophy is: "If we go on regarding ourselves as primarily transport operators, then there isn't any future for us, because the airlines have captured the pure transport market on the basis of both speed and price. So we have to sell leisure and sell holidays...