Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MARK-48. Big brother of Mark-46, but still under development, it is to be launched from submarines, dive deeper and travel faster than the Mark...
...wedged the huge metallic shapes onto rollers, eased them down wood beams, hoisted them upright with block and tackle. Meanwhile, the foreman from West Berlin's Hermann Noack foundry, which cast the behemoth bather, scrubbed down her metal flanks with a hand brush to remove the grime of travel...
Ever since it invented the traveler's check in 1891, American Express Co. has been concerned with the problems of U.S. tourists. For the more than 1,500,000 Americans who travel abroad annually-the total is up 20% this year -its 408 offices around the world serve as mailing address, bank, guide, interpreter, travel agent and meeting place. They also take on such tasks as searching for daughters who have not written home and getting quick attention for those who become ill. Best known for its virtually loss-proof checks-which have become one of the world...
Going Boeing. The dramatic upsurge of Europe's airlines, all of which are wholly or partially state-owned, stems both from continuing economic prosperity and from the growing urge of Europeans for air travel. By their eagerness to fly, they are helping the airlines get fuller use of their costly jet fleets, pushing up load factors past the break-even point for almost all major carriers. To increase profit margins as well as loads, the airlines are streamlining operations. Computerized electronic reservations systems and automated baggage handling have enabled SAS to eliminate 2,700 employees from the payroll...
...basic maxims of space travel, says Flight Director Chris Kraft, is: "If you don't know what to do, don't do anything." Then, if the problem does not correct itself, there is almost always time enough to take remedial action−as there was last week when the gremlins of Gemini 5 battled against the determined ingenuity, intelligence and hardheaded courage of crack U.S. spacemen...