Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dayan lost his left eye in 1941 when, fighting for the British army, he led a raid into Vichy-held Syria. He was peering through field glasses when a bullet hit the eyepiece, driving metal and glass splinters into his eye. He had to wait six hours for transport to a hospital...
...problems would require the East Germans to move several sections of the Wall. Still, the secret negotiations made possible by the Big Four agreement offer hope that one day soon Eiskeller farmers will have electricity and Steinstuckeners will no longer have to spend three days acquiring permits to transport a piece of new furniture from West Berlin to their homes...
...Chief of Staff Huang Yung-sheng, one of his deputy chiefs of staff, the chief of the air force, the First Commissar of the navy and at least twelve senior officers in the Peking military headquarters; they have not been seen since. After a British-made tri-jet Trident transport mysteriously crashed deep in Mongolia, the Chinese air force was grounded; not until seven weeks later were some essential flights resumed...
...plunging Seattle into a depression, Boeing President T.A. Wilson appointed a top-level task force to study possibilities for new projects. After two months of work, the group submitted a recommendation unique in the annals of blue-sky business: Boeing should get busy in the areas of surface transportation and community development, among others. As if to validate the committee's judgment, the Senate promptly voted to withdraw federal support from the $1.2 billion supersonic transport project, for which Boeing was prime contractor. Vowed Wilson: "Our objective is to have 33% of Boeing's total business in nontraditional...
...Leaving the road behind, I entered a strange world where water is seasonal king and the only transport is a large, cane-covered canoe known as the country boat. For seven hours we plied deeper into Gopalganj subdivision in southern Faridpur district. The two wiry oarsmen found their way by taking note of such landmarks as a forlornly decaying maharajah's palace and giant butterfly nets hovering like outsized flamingos on stilt legs at water's edge...