Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What the great debate is all about is whether the U.S. supersonic transport, a sleek, needle-shaped bird programmed to fly above the weather at 21 times the speed of sound, will be a boon, as Pan American World Airways President Halaby predicts, or if, in the words of Ecology Buff Arthur Godfrey, it will be "a boom-doggie." To a growing number of critics, the latter seems likely...
...million allotment for Lockheed. The prospect of passage in the Senate's more hostile environment is far less certain when the bill comes up for debate early next month. Of Lockheed's allotment, $344.4 million represents progress payments on production of the giant C-5A military transport. The remaining $200 million is called "contingency funding" by the Pentagon and "bailout money" by Lockheed's critics. Says Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire: "I don't think it is in the public or national interest to finance Lockheed...
...none since the B-47 was phased out. The Soviet tactical air force includes 4,800 planes, mainly attack bombers such as the YAK-28 and fighters (MIG-21s and SU-7s), which can be used for low-level bombing and strafing missions. There are also some 1,700 transport aircraft, including an estimated 20 of the monstrous Antonov-22s, which can carry 720 troops. Despite the Soviet advantage in numbers, most experts rate the U.S. Air Force superior to the Russian in every important category because of superior U.S. equipment and pilot combat experience...
...company has drastically modernized its management. Royal Dutch/Shell has been one of the world's most complex organizations ever since 1907, when Marcus Samuel, the Briton who started out trading in sea shells and was one of the pioneers in the use of oil tankers, joined his "Shell" Transport & Trading Co. with the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. Even today, Shell consists of those two parent companies, which through two holding companies own or control hundreds of firms round the world, including the U.S.'s Shell Oil Co.* For years Royal Dutch/Shell had two separate headquarters in Britain...
...masks distracting outside noises and disturbing interior echoes. The white noise has its limitations. "It's very tricky," says Robert Newman, senior vice president of Bolt Beranek & Newman, a Cambridge, Mass., company specializing in acoustic engineering. "It would take a horrendous amount of noise to mask a supersonic transport airplane. Generating white noise to hide sounds above the annoyance level is like using Chanel No. 5 to hide the fact that you haven't had a bath for weeks...