Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last. In quick succession, swarms of U.S. and South Vietnamese aircraft blasted other bridges important to North Vietnam's transport system. Over one target, Communist Migs suddenly darted out of the haze and in a brief, ferocious blaze of gunfire brought down two U.S. Air Force...
...report failed to answer charges made by several Harvard students to Dean Watson in February that the HSA had violated Civil Aeronautics Board and International Air Transport Association regulations. The students claimed that the HSA had failed to follow regulations which required a charter organization to give each passenger an itemized list of expenses before each right and to issue a detailed financial report afterwards...
...Approved in the House Armed Services Committee $14.8 billion for new aircraft, missiles and ships, along with a proposal to change the name of the Military Air Transport Service to the Military Airlift Command...
...revolutionary, spitting at the carriage trade while he digs ditches to support his mother (Flora Robson) and sister (Sian Phillips), both doomed to die in genteel poverty. The teakettle warmth of Irish family life simmers comfortably until Director Jack Cardiff plunges into the eye of street fights during the Transport Strike and the bloody Easter Rising of 1916, catching the awful impact of thudding billy clubs, of bullets and bombs and sudden death, letting his camera soak up the slaughter in pitiless detail...
...plans for a supersonic transport have had as many ups and downs as a single-prop plane bulling its way through a thunderstorm. Last week President Johnson received the most optimistic report yet on the SST-a report that has suddenly brightened the plane's uncertain prospects. Prepared by the Commerce Department, it bases its favorable analysis of the 1,900-m.p.h., 150-passenger plane on several new economic and technical discoveries...