Word: transport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thrown into the breach, thereby calling into question the gains so far attained on the northern front. Supplies and reinforcements must be flown from Saigon by U.S. Air Force C-130s operating out of Thailand. Reason: there are not enough South Vietnamese crews trained to handle these transport aircraft that have been given to Saigon by the Americans...
...ironically, Pan Am may be helped by a phenomenon that it and nearly every other intercontinental carrier has fought against bitterly: low-cost group travel abroad. The International Air Transport Association, the carriers' cartel that has fixed prices on overseas tickets for 26 years, has been unable to agree on a 1973 fare structure for the heavily traveled North Atlantic routes, leaving the airlines to compete among themselves beginning Feb. 1 in an "open fare" situation. Although Pan Am officials remain worried that too much bulk flying may cut into their scheduled-service sales, air officials in Washington...
...CRADF spokesman said yesterday that the elimination of the discount fares could come as early as March However, Leroy Huntington, an Air Transport Analyst for the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) said that he thought prohibition of youth fares could not come until the summer at the earliest because of the bureaucratic process...
...Aboard the KC-135 were 64 passengers, many of them G.I.s, and two military coffins. Suddenly, the plane was ordered to reroute slightly and land at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. There federal authorities, acting on a tip that 20 kilos of heroin were aboard, virtually took the transport apart. They did not find any drugs, but they did discover that one of the two bodies, which had undergone autopsy earlier, had recently been restitched...
...STUDENT, who has no fixed place of residence, soon learns what a burden erudition is. Obligated, several times a year, to transport his entire library from one apartment to another, he develops the habit of regarding it as an object, like furniture, to be packed up, unused and unread, each summer. When autumn arrives, the volumes are unveiled again, examined, and placed on the shelves...