Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's environmentalist lobby, refreshed by its success, had turned to other concerns. So had the Boeing Company. After the Senate abruptly voted down further funds for development of the supersonic transport in March, Boeing laid off more than 5,000 workers, dispersed its crack team of SST designers and engineers, and closed down the Seattle factory where for four years it had been creating a supersonic prototype...
...experiment in relating the uses of the helicopter, as refined in Viet Nam, to the Army of the '70s and '80s. Should TRICAP prove out over the next three years, it will employ tanks for shock on the ground, Hueys and CH-47 Chinooks for troop transport, and either Cobra gunships, or the new Lockheed Cheyenne missile platforms for air support. The modernized division will be assigned as part of the U.S. commitment to NATO defensive units in Western Europe...
...battle over developing an American supersonic transport plane was revived yesterday when the House executed an about-face and voted $85 million dollars to restart the project...
Both the old and new Grand Juries have officially been investigating an alleged Weatherman plot to transport explosives from Tucson to California, but only a few questions asked of the witnesses have been related to this matter...
...reasons. Even if he does poorly in the cities, as he did in 1967, he has enough solid support in the countryside to win going away. As the incumbent, moreover, he has control of press censorship and government radio and TV, plus ready access to U.S. plane and helicopter transport. Another asset is the fact that in South Viet Nam's short experience with elections, voting has come to be viewed as an almost canonical way of registering accommodation with the powers that be. Thus, Thieu has no need to rig the election, though the recent appearance all over...