Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sonic booms every 24 hours, day after day, week after week-a pattern of thunderclaps for the area's 750,000 inhabitants who have become guinea pigs in a six-month Federal Aviation Agency test. The test is to determine the effect upon groundlings of flights by supersonic transport aircraft, which the U.S. is about ready to develop, when they start crisscrossing the country in the early 1970s...
...announcement that the U.S. already has a plane flying at three times the speed of sound last week sent shock waves across Britain and France, which had been confident of winning air supremacy with their Concorde supersonic transport. Lockheed's All, and the American technological breakthroughs it implies, makes it almost certain that the U.S. will produce a supersonic plane that will be bigger, faster and cheaper to operate than the Mach 2.2 Concorde...
Renault and Alfa Romeo handle each other's autos; French and German airframe makers are cooperating on the building of a new military transport. When a licensing agreement or a marketing arrangement works out, the companies may then move closer; as in a courtship, merger is the last, though usually intended step...
...refusing to join the International Air Transport Association, which sets identical fares for the world's major airlines, Icelandic remains free to underprice its competitors. Its fare between New York and London is $231 v. a standard jet economy fare of $263; between New York and Oslo it is $250 v. $305. When I.A.T.A. carriers cut their fares in April, Icelandic plans reductions of its own to keep an average 20% below the I.A.T.A. level...
...advantage of annual ECGs is that they enable cardiologists to spot minute but progressive changes. A 42-year-old transport pilot who had been ferrying 137 passengers to and from Europe was recently grounded because of minor but disquieting ECG changes. To make sure that there was no injustice to him, his case was reviewed by not only Canadian but by U.S. and United Kingdom cardiologists. He stayed on the ground...