Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seats but offer plenty of vertical safety poles to cling to, and are designed to operate smoothly for the benefit of the large percentage of elderly riders in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area. Municipal airports in Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles have built moving sidewalks -conveyor belts that transport passengers to loading areas; in Los Angeles, for example, they save about 420 ft. of walking. Prosaic buses haul passengers from terminal to aircraft at Atlanta and Honolulu airports, among others. The Hawaiian version consists of pint-sized wiki wiki (hurry hurry) vehicles that play taped Hawaiian music and broadcast...
...supersonic transport, which, after a leisurely subsonic flight from Prague, touched down with its 26 tires threadbare from many high-speed landings. Though the Russian SST made its first test flight more than two years ago, it had not been previously exhibited for Westerners. It quickly became the star of the Paris show...
...engined IL-76, billed as a wide-bodied commercial transport and dressed up in blue-and-white Aeroflot markings, but actually a military support ship...
...industry because many rivals believe that it has often used abrasive competitive tactics. It has a reputation for "buying in" on Government projects, bidding unrealistically low on the assumption that once the contract was landed, the costs could be renegotiated upward. On Lockheed's C-5A military transport alone, the Government has laid out an extra $1.3 billion to pay for "cost overruns." Still, Lockheed last year managed to lose money on the C-5A and three other major military contracts...
...Nixon. They are particularly shocked by several portents, including the fact that imported cars account for 33% of all new-auto sales in California and the expectation that Japan will turn out more steel than the U.S. in 1974. They are upset by the demise of the U.S. supersonic transport (aircraft exports added $2.5 billion to the plus side of the nation's balance of payments last year) and by the stiffening trade barriers in the Common Market (American farm exports, largely to the Market, added $7.2 billion to the balance of payments last year). Said Treasury Secretary John...