Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total expenditures in the next fiscal year will be closer to $49 billion than to $50 billion." To emphasize his point that lower spending did not mean less preparedness, McNamara announced that Johnson had approved an extra $157 million to begin development of a mammoth new military cargo transport plane, the CX. About as long as a hockey rink and double the width of a moving van, the C-X would carry up to 600 troops and their equipment-a total payload of 250,000 Ibs. It should be operational by 1969, said McNamara, and plans call for ordering...
...everything but a sign saying Do Not Disturb the Skeletons. Along the tour, they can buy souvenir miniature rubber boulders, which, they are told, are similar to the 5,000,000 standard props in use in the studio complex. They also learn that 800 vehicles are required just to transport people among the 35 sound stages, and the office building, the post office, the bank-it really is a city...
...Nairobi Airport, the last British combat troops-80 in all- slow-marched through ranks of the native Third Kenya Rifles to the strains of Auld Lang Syne, then were whisked away aboard an R.A.F. transport. That midnight, before 50,000 in a Nairobi stadium, Kenyatta's new presidential stand ard was unfurled-crossed spears super imposed on a tribal shield, flanked by a crowing cock...
Nearly 125 companies in the U.S. now transport energy by pipe. Last year they pumped 14.8 trillion cu. ft. of gas and 3.7 billion bbl. of crude oil or refined products. Snaking more pipe over rivers and bays, deserts and mountains, the industry this year will lay another 28,200 miles at a cost of $1.8 billion...
...program. A new 15% tax on manufactured imports will have the effect of doubling tariffs, adding 28? to a bottle of sherry and $225 to a Volkswagen. The government also started to "re-examine" the joint Anglo-French projects to build the Channel tunnel and the Concorde supersonic jet transport (the French feel certain that Britain will try to pull out of the Concorde). On top of that, the government announced a tax kickback for exporters, amounting to 1.5% of the value of goods shipped...