Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firms, all of which are fighting to keep their lucrative 70% share of the free world's $2 billion-a-year market in aerospace exports. General Electric unveiled a full-size mock-up of the engine with which it proposes to power an American supersonic transport, even though the U.S. has not formally decided to develop one. Lockheed showed its experimental XH-51 helicopter, the fastest (270 m.p.h.) in the free world, and a Lockheed C-141 StarLifter, the largest craft at the show, flew across the Atlantic with an inflatable Army field hospital. The Defense Department showed...
European manufacturers stressed their growing teamwork in producing sophisticated equipment too costly for one country to devise alone. Britain and France shared an exhibit of their supersonic Concorde, taking advantage of the lone air-transport realm in which the U.S. lags, pointed proudly to 47 orders already on the books for the still unbuilt plane. The French government seized the occasion to order Sud-Aviation to build 13 more of its twin-jet Caravelles, and France's Nord-Aviation showed off the twin-engined Transall cargo plane that it has developed with five German firms...
...world's No. 3 producer and a formidably competitive exporter from Detroit to Düsseldorf. This competition, anguishing to German and U.S. steelmen alike, may soon sharpen. Reason: even bigger ships now in the making (up to 100,000 tons) are expected to halve the present transport costs of coal...
Movies are in the air to stay. Last week the Civil Aeronautics Board re jected a proposal by the International Air Transport Association to ban mov ies on all international flights. I.A.T.A.'s proposed ban was not in the public in terest, said the CAB; not only that, but it might subject participating U.S. air lines to antitrust action by the Justice Department, which last month angrily criticized I.A.T.A. for its "methodical elimination of all forms of competition in international air travel...
...honored guest of Sajjid, King of Suruk, is Newton Bemis, a 29-year-old biophysicist. "You are know who to be are all those peoples on horses, Misser Bemis?" asks the king in a transport of hospitality, as they ride through ranks of uniformed troops prancing on the road to Qam, the capital city. "Soldiers men. All guns do been shooted for say hello. Soldiers do raising Lord Harry to be like saying, 'Happy welcome of Suruk, Misser Bemis...