Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, after two years of discussion, an Anglo-French committee of government transport experts endorsed a plan to connect Dover and Calais by means of a 32-mile, $407 million railroad tunnel. The committee found either of two approaches feasible: a brace of segmented "immersed tubes" that would run across the channel floor, or a trio of cross-connected tunnels bored through the soft lower chalk layer 160 feet beneath the bottom...
Despite reservations about financing, the French government was "very positive in favor of a tunnel." But as usual, the British were cool. "We are not committed to any particular course of action," said British Transport Minister Ernest Marples. "The report has been published because people in this democratic country must have their...
...change, the government could boast of an honest election. "Live men voted," proclaimed Premier Assadollah Alam, aware of the departure from the old days when corpses' votes were stuffed into the ballot boxes by the thousands. No longer did landlords transport villagers to the polls in trucks, with their prepaid votes in hand. For the first time in a parliamentary election, veiled women in wrap-around chadors lined up with the menfolk at polling booths. Although the Shah put anti-reform Moslem mullahs (priests) under house arrest, barred political rallies, and closed up 75 Teheran dailies and weeklies...
...will be the richest and most prestigious contract in the history of U.S. commercial aviation, and last week the nation's leading planemakers lined up in Washington to declare whether they wanted to bid for it. At stake was the contract to build a supersonic transport (dubbed the SST) to compete against the 1,500-m.p.h., delta-wing Concorde that an Anglo-French combine is building and plans to test...
...Beyond the fact that Boeing has done the most research on its own, there are political considerations. North American is well fixed for years to come with its Apollo moonshot contract, and Lockheed is relatively well-backlogged with its contracts for the Polaris missile and the new Starlifter military transport. But the end is in sight for Boeing's big KC-135 flying-tanker contract, and its current orders for Minuteman missiles will run out in two or three years. Besides, it was the loser in the hot TFX competition, and thus stands next in line to get something...