Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last September, Seattle's Boeing Co., having spent $16 million to design a giant jet military transport, lost the $2 billion Pentagon contract to the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and its C-5A. Despite the staggering blow, Boeing's President William Allen managed to sound philosophical. "When you lose," he said, "you look for other opportunities...
...friend with whom Boeing had clone a lot of mutually profitable business in the past. Pan American Chairman Juan Trippe has been buying Boeing products for years, from the old Yankee Clipper to the immensely successful 707 and 727. Now, Boeing simply redesigned its rejected military transport jet to meet Trippe's commercial needs. Last week Trippe signed a $525 million contract-biggest single order in the history of commercial aviation-to buy 25 of Boeing's new 747s...
...calmly roused passengers from bed, outfitted them with life jackets and supervised their evacuation, women and children first. The ship's steel lifeboats, with a total capacity of 874, were lowered in minutes. While crewmen remained behind to search all cabins, nearby freighters picked up the passengers to transport them to the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo...
...strike, called by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen against eight major railroads, immediately stranded 32,000 commuters in Chicago, another 12,000 in Boston. Mail service was disrupted and transport problems forced manufacturers to cut back production. More than 200,000 workers found themselves on short schedules or off the job altogether...
...years, companies have been working toward onboard warning systems to prevent mid-air collisions, which are often the result of visual illusions that lead pilots astray. Last month the Air Transport Association announced that development of a practical, economical device is "now closer to realization than at any time in the past." The promising system is McDonnell Aircraft's "Eros" (for Eliminate Range System), which will beep a warning to pilots when two planes get on a collision course. It will also instruct pilots-by means of arrows on the instrument panel -which way to turn to avoid trouble...