Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DETERRENT. De Gaulle was happy to bring the world up to date on the state of France's fledgling atomic air force: "The first unit will be operational this year. In 1966 we will have sufficient Mirage IV planes and refueling aircraft to be able to transport over several thousand kilometers projectiles whose total explosive power is greater than 150 Hiroshima bombs." He did not add that all this would be impossible without airborne refueling tankers that are to be supplied by the U.S., nor that, as an air force staff colonel disclosed last week, the primitive French bomb...
Nearly two dozen of the world's airlines, from Pan American to tiny Aeronaves de Mexico, have hopefully placed 140 orders for either an American or a British-French supersonic transport. Considering the SST's list of problems, that's quite a bit of hope. Rarely has the development of a new product been more beset by rising costs, clamor and competition...
...Anglo-French Concorde so far will cost the two nations 75% more than originally planned. This admission brought gasps from the House of Commons when it was made fortnight ago by Aviation Minister Julian Amery. He admitted that he and French Transport Minister Marc Jaquet had adjusted the cost to $400 million for each country after studying modifications that will be necessary to give the Concorde more passenger space, greater engine power and larger wing area-partly to make it more competitive with the proposed U.S. model...
Spinning Markets. Under Crump, C.P.R. also rounded out its transportation empire by absorbing Smith Transport, Canada's biggest trucking firm. This fall it will begin construction of a new hotel in Montreal, has faced up to the motor age by taking on the management of motels. But its greatest growth could come from its considerable remaining land holdings, whose rich resources the road has now begun to exploit. The newly formed Canadian Pacific Oil and Gas, Ltd., earned $5,600,-000 for C.P.R. in 1963, and another stripling subsidiary, Pacific Logging, contributed $253,000. A 51% interest in Consolidated...
...signatures from Boston, but said he sought at least 10,000 to be sure he gets on the ballot. The canvassing for signatures will continue through July 14. Every weekday cars will leave from 44 Brattle St. at 5:30 p.m. and on weekends at 10 a.m. to transport volunteers...