Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moving both people and cargo regularly and reliably is one of the basic building blocks of any modern industrial economy, and increasingly that transport is done by air. Every day 800,000 passengers, 60% of them business travelers, settle down, buckle up and take off aboard 14,000 scheduled commercial flights, both domestic and international. In addition, 10,000 tons of air cargo containing everything from computer parts to goldfish are carried to destinations near and far. The immediate result is more than $30 billion per year in revenues to the airlines, and jobs for 340,000 employees, ranging from...
...growth of commercial air transport has literally changed the landscape of U.S. business. To spur their local economies and attract new corporations, cities have invested many billions of dollars in the construction and expansion of airports and terminal facilities. These have become beacons for business in their own right, complete with hotels, shops and restaurants. One of the newest in the nation is Atlanta's eleven-month-old Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, a sprawling, twin-terminal complex designed to eliminate the congestion that had existed at the city's old one, which was already the second busiest...
...blames the food shortages largely on the government's grossly inefficient distribution system. There is some support for that argument. Grain-bearing ships, for example, are often unable to unload at Polish ports because there is no room in the grain elevators. Reason: a lack of trains to transport the grain to Poland's hungry people...
...taking steps to stock Poland's larder. Last week the Reagan Administration announced plans to grant Warsaw $55 million in long-term credits to buy and transport 350,000 metric tons of U.S. corn to Poland to help save the country's threatened poultry industry. The Administration also authorized the Catholic Relief Services agency to buy surplus American agricultural products at low prices for shipment to Poland. Reflecting just how critical its food shortage has become, Poland has attracted the concern of CARE, the New York City-based charity that first gained international recognition in 1946 by sending...
...automatic-rifle fire echoed in the cloud-draped mountains along the El Salvador-Honduras border, U.S.-supplied "Huey" transport helicopters banked low over steep, forested gorges, then deposited heavily armed troops at key locations on the forbidding terrain. According to eyewitnesses, the elite Atlacatl Brigade, some 800 to 1,000 strong, landed near the village of Valladolid, Honduras, violating Honduran airspace and territory as local soldiers looked on impassively. The invaders' mission: to engage leftist Salvadoran guerrilla forces entrenched in pockets along the demilitarized border zone established after El Salvador's four-day war in 1969 with Honduras...