Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...look at the battle-ready Sixth Fleet, Rome Correspondent Sam Allis visited the U.S. carrier Saratoga earlier in March. There, he was catapulted into the sky, with his back facing forward, in a windowless section of a transport plane. "The G forces as we shot off the deck rendered us journalists, for once, helpless, very humble people," says Allis. "As for landing, I found it rather comforting not to see just how small the flight deck looked from...
...approve $2.8 billion in loans to six Latin American nations, including Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador and Mexico. Some $1 billion is earmarked for Mexico, $400 million of which will be used to rebuild the structures destroyed by last September's earthquake. Colombia will receive $176 million for irrigation and rural transport. The bank's actions cap a period of record lending. For the fiscal year that ends in June, World Bank loans to Latin American countries are expected to reach an all-time high of $4.5 billion, up 22% from the 1985 level...
...remote airfield in the Arizona desert, 90 miles southeast of Phoenix. On a wall within is a 4 ft.-by-3 ft. plaque that reads "George Arntzen Doole (1909-1985). Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Directors of Air America Inc., Air Asia Company Limited, Civil Air Transport Company Limited." The plaque is the only memorial to a man who created and ran what was once one of the largest airlines in the free world. The airline was known by half a dozen different names, sometimes just as the "Shy Airline," and it flew where few tourists wanted...
...Connecticut Avenue, he founded and ran a far-flung network of airlines that the agency used to carry out its covert operations all over the world. Owned by a holding company, the Pacific Corp., that was itself a CIA front, Doole's empire included Air America, Civil Air Transport, Southern Air Transport, Air Asia and dozens of small puddle-jumper lines. Together, at their peak in the mid '60s, these CIA "proprietaries" added up to an airline that was almost the size of TWA, employing nearly 20,000 people (as many as the CIA itself) and operating some 200 planes...
...problems faced by the Soviet Union. Said he: "Comrades, a problem we will have to solve in the shortest time possible is that of fully meeting our country's food needs." His prescription for progress in agricultural production: better and more independent management of farms, more efficient harvest and transport of crops, and improved farm technology. He also promised to carry on his purge against corruption and laziness, which have driven hundreds of party and government officials from jobs they once regarded as sinecures...