Word: transport
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...country's defense needs in return for Lockheed commissions that the Church subcommittee calculated to total $200,000. The references are contained in a letter written in 1968 by a Lockheed agent in Bogotá to Lockheed's Georgia office when Colombia was ready to buy a third Lockheed Hercules transport for about $2 million. The agent assured his superiors that even though the Colombian military budget was being cut, the air force officers could "justify the true necessity for more equipment in order to guarantee the national security." Then he added: "Just between you and me, this is not exactly...
...newspaper is presently looking for planes to fly the goods collected to Guatemala and is receiving assistance from both Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass) and Representative Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass), House Majority Leader, in its search for transport, the spokesman said...
More bad news is ahead. The authoritative Aerospace Industries Association predicts that commercial-transport sales this year will not exceed 215 planes. That means still fewer jobs in an industry whose direct employment had already fallen from 973,000 people in 1974 to 921,000 last year. The expected total next December: 903,000. When subcontractors' layoffs and the ripple effect on housing and other industries in plant towns are added in, the sag in the airplane industry might well be a drag on the nation's economic recovery...
Ironically, the slump in the U.S. jetliner business seems to have spurred old competitors to new heights. By far the most noteworthy planes of 1975-the Concorde supersonic transport, the mediumrange, twin-engined Airbus A300B and the short-range Fokker VFW-614-were built by European consortiums. None of these craft pose an immediate threat to U.S. pre-eminence in the world market. But the European planes are of such quality that U.S. manufacturers now must watch not only one another but foreigners determined to open new horizons of excitement and speed in air travel...
Unlike a closeup look at the moon, the visual impact of Pacific Overtures is ravishingly beautiful. The screens and sets (Boris Aronson) and costumes (Florence Klotz) transport one hypnotically into the realm of ukiyoe, the "floating world" of the Japanese print. The shape and tone of the show is that of a Kabuki-styled operetta. It is audaciously ambitious and flagrantly pretentious. Pacific Overtures attempts to portray the Westernization of Japan after the arrival of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's trade mission in 1853. The appearance of Perry's battleship is the evening's showstopper. First...