Word: piggybacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never comes anywhere near Venus, the U.S.S.R. can still claim another successful space first: launching an interplanetary vehicle from a circling earth-satellite. Although never before tried, the trick has long been discussed by satellite scientists, who agree that it has important advantages. If an interplanetary vehicle is carried piggyback on a satellite, its speed and direction can be measured accurately and unhurriedly while it is still on a "parking'' orbit. Then, far in advance, a point can be selected that will be best for the probe's interplanetary takeoff...
...PIGGYBACK POOL will be set up by the R.E.A. Express (new name of the Railway Express Agency). Shippers will be able to rent trailers for shipping by rail, then turn them in at 31 points across the U.S., thus save cost of returning the trailers to home base after the delivery is made...
Frisco Vice President Jack E. Gilliland, the line's Texas-born, methodical traffic manager, decided to try "piggyback," i.e., loading auto truck trailers directly onto flatcars (minus the cab). It found piggyback trains could beat the truck time from St. Louis to Dallas by as much as eight hours, plant to dealer-at a price per car of only $73.90 v., $97.35 by truck. In the first half of this year, the Frisco's auto shipments rose to nearly 50,000 cars, accounting for 4.4% of the railroad's total freight revenue...
Right Flank March. A month later, he put Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower piggyback in the cockpit of a P-51 and took him on a go-minute ride along the beachhead ("Eisenhower was very pleased, but we both caught hell from the Joint Chiefs of Staff"). During the great armored-tank drive across Europe, Quesada's Ninth Tactical Air Command, rather than troops, became Lieut. General George Patton's "right flank": he had put a fighter pilot in each of Patton's lead tanks "so that we would have quick communications with fighter pilots. I wanted...