Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AVIATION. Development of a 2,000-m.p.h. supersonic jet transport plane, to be built by private companies on a 25%-of-cost basis. In support of an additional $200 million in 1966-67, Johnson said: "We hope to conduct first flight tests by 1970, and to introduce it into commercial service...
...toxic chemicals in the massacre of our compatriots." Then there is the subtler approach, such as paying calls on the wives of Vietnamese troops "to inquire about the health of their husbands" and thus undermine civilian morale. Or, when an air attack is over, one might transport "the most typical victim of U.S. bombs and shells" -meaning, of course, the most mutilated-"to the boroughs, towns and cities" for public display...
...224-ft.tall bird, with a fantastic initial thrust of 1,600,000 lbs. to hurl its 650-ton bulk into space, was ready for its first crucial test. Atop Saturn's nose sat the payload: the 33,800-lb. Apollo three-man command capsule and service module that will transport U.S. astronauts to the moon and back. If the U.S. is to achieve its goal by 1969, now was the time to start ironing out the bugs...
However, before any underdeveloped nation can begin to diversify its economy, he explained, it must develop an extensive transport and communications system, its population density must rise, and education must become wide-spread...
...possibly underground, highways. McLuhan and others predict that both the wheel and the highway will be obsolete, giving way to hovercraft that ride on air. Planes carrying 1,000 passengers and flying just under the speed of sound will of course be old hat. The new thing will be transport by ballistic rocket, capable of reaching any place on earth in 40 minutes. In Rand's Delphi study, 82 scientists agreed that a permanent lunar base will have been established long before A.D. 2000 and that men will have flown past Venus and landed on Mars...