Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...destroy" missions. The "Winter Soldiers"-named after the troops who stayed at Valley Forge during the bitter winter of 1777-will conclude their demonstrations on April 23 at the Capitol. The ex-G.I.s will turn in their service medals, placing them in green body bags normally used to transport combat dead, for presentation to President Nixon...
Ptashne emphatically denied Bethel's charges. According to Ptashne, the conference involved "a discussion of health, transport, and communication facilities in the underdeveloped countries. To say that there was any planning for violent revolution anywhere is ridiculous...
While it was laid up, the Indians cadged rides with sympathetic yachtsmen and rented boats with the meager funds donated to them. They have been able to transport a fairly steady supply of fresh water, which is hauled laboriously up the steep, rocky slopes in five-gallon cans. A generator has been installed but, ill-maintained, it breaks down regularly...
...impact, the increase did little more than put New York on a par with other U.S. cities (see chart); yet no other city is so set up, and so bogged down, with mass transport that 800,000 of its citizens take at least one cab a day. Or did, before the hike. Now, with the average ride up from $1.35 to $2 and the oldtime $7 fare from midtown Manhattan to Kennedy Airport almost doubled, business in New York is already down at least 20% and still ebbing. Only in the rain, or late at night, does the stalwart passenger...
...need for an aircraft to use his cameras for aerial mapping led him into plane building, and in 1926 the fledgling Fairchild Aviation Corp. introduced the first enclosed-cabin monoplane. During World War II, Fairchild turned out thousands of PT-19 trainers and developed the C-119 "Flying Boxcar" transport. At his death, he was one of the largest stockholders in IBM and chairman of both Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. and Fairchild Hiller Corp...