Word: transport
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Force Base in New Mexico on the 5,200-mile flight to Torrejon, Spain, then the 3,100-mile leg to Dezful, Iran, with frequent in-flight refueling by Strategic Air Command KC-135 tankers. Some 2,500 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division boarded twelve Military Air Transport Service C-135 jets at Kentucky's Fort Campbell, landed at Adana, Turkey, in a miserable rain. There they switched to C-130s, their usual jump planes. From all over the U.S., various cargo craft headed east with combat equipment...
Phumy was soon isolated. Merchants closed shop; 130 tons of processed rice piled up at the village mill for lack of transport. Viet Cong cadres took over the schools, charged taxes-500 piasters on each of Phumy's thatch-roofed houses, plus eleven pounds of rice from each family per month. They also erected a 15-ft.-high concrete monument to Communism at the village gate...
Then came the question of who owned the ex-colonial government's bulging stock portfolio. In return for mining, forestry and transport concessions, Congo-based private companies had paid the colony in stock. As a result, the colonial government controlled nearly 20% of Katanga's wealthy Union Minière, had control of diamond mines in Kasai province and hundreds of smaller concerns. At independence, the portfolio was worth more than $700 million; it has since skidded to less than half that value. More than any other economic factor, the desire to keep control of Union Mini...
Whitefield Cottage, Great Missenden, Bucks, is an odd address for Patricia Neal to have settled into, for she was born in a mining camp in Packard, Ky., where her father was local transport manager for the South Coal & Coke Co. After two years at Northwestern, she naively headed for New York to become a star of Broadway plays-and became one in less than a year, winning a Tony award and the New York Drama Critics best-actress award for her performance in Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest...
...most of which is produced by coal or, increasingly, by oil and gas. Highly industrialized nations depend on improving the efficiency of these sources to meet much of their power need; U.S. utilities now build thermal power plants right on top of coal fields because it is cheaper to transport power than coal, and Britain and France cooperate on an under-Channel cable that feeds French power to Britain at the breakfast power peak, then reverses to feed British power to France at its 5 p.m. dinnertime peak...