Word: transporters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people who were evacuated would also raise large food-distribution problems. They were moved out in the first place not just because of the bombing but to take them to the rice areas, so that rice would not have to be shipped into the city and thus require transport that could otherwise be used for war goods. North Viet Nam has only recently solved the problem of food shortages, and Ho would not be likely to dismantle a successful system now. The North is, however, using the pause to patch up roads, rails and bridges continually hit by U.S. bombs...
...Senator, who had long worked with Mrs. King in ecumenical church affairs. One caller was New York's Senator Robert Kennedy, who had come to King's aid in 1960 when he was in jail for his Atlanta sit-ins. R.F.K. promised to send a plane to transport the leader's body back to Atlanta...
...civilian spin-off of Lockheed's C-5A military transport program, will carry passengers eight across in coach class and six across in first class. Two aisles toward the sides of the plane will separate the eight seats into a two-four-two arrangement. The plane can also carry 345 people, all in tourist class. Meals will be cooked on a lower deck, sent by elevator to the passenger level. The Rolls engines will carry the big jets 3,160 miles at speeds equivalent to today's jets, but the L-101ls will need less landing and takeoff...
Quietly and secretly, technicians at Fort Knox, Ky., loaded an estimated $450 million worth of gold ingots onto a heavily armed convoy. The convoy proceeded to a nearby U.S. Air Force base, where the gold was loaded aboard a transport plane and flown to Britain...
...chief beneficiaries of the change in the hotel's ownership. According to Forte's estimates, Airport Catering Service will be picking up nearly a third of the top-class beds in Paris (840 out of 3,000). "We believe the days when you could offer air transport only are over. Now you have to offer a complete travel service," says Ron Spencer, B.E.A.'s representative on A.C.S.'s board. For B.E.A., the Paris hotels are a natural. The LondonParis route is about the most important for the airline, and first-class travel is growing faster than...