Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Chinese-made automatic weapons-usually a stamped copy of the Russian World War II vent-barreled burp gun. He is supported by light and medium mortars, bazooka-style rocket launchers, recoilless rifles, and artillery that in performance ranks with the best in the world. As to armor and transport, Mao's millions are woefully underequipped. Some 4,000 Russian T-34 tanks are still operating, but though that machine was first-rank armor during the Korean War, it is now obsolete. Still, armor would be of little use to any army fighting in Southeast Asia, an area about...
Brave begins arrestingly with a Japanese narrator, Lieut. Kuroki (Tatsuya Mihashi), who, rrring all his Is, describes the "roneriness of command" over a pocket of troops marooned on a Pacific island outpost. Soon an air battle sends a tiny C-47 transport plowing into the island's toy palms, and out of the special effects a story line emerges. Two enemy bands exist side by side, Japanese and American. Will they continue the mad annihilation? Or will they discover that they need each other to survive, and declare a truce...
...Used to transport graduate students who have classes at different schools on the same day, the service consists of chartered Checker Cab limousines and a Falcon station wagon, running every hour on the half hour, Monday through Friday...
...these accusations are just, the Flights Agency is behaving not only immorally, but also illegally. The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which regulates all major transcontinental airlines, prohibits a chartering agency from making a profit or from charging more than "reasonable administrative fees." And though providing no exact definition of "reasonable," IATA clearly disallows two practices commonly attributed...
...place of its projected HS-681 transport, Britain will buy some 50 C-130 Hercules turboprop transports from...