Word: transporting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technical flaws plague many major weapons systems, including the Army MBT-70 tank (prime contractor: General Motors), the Navy LHA assault-ship program (Litton) and the Air Force Short-Range Attack Missile (Boeing). Last week all the censure converged on two huge defense projects, the Air Force C-5A transport and the Army AH-56A Cheyenne helicopter. Both are built by Lockheed Aircraft Corp., whose $2.2 billion in sales last year were made almost entirely to the military. Lockheed is the nation's second-biggest defense contractor, after General Dynamics...
Toward a Million. The oil companies want bigger tankers because huge capacity makes it economical for their ships to bypass the blocked Suez Canal and lumber around the Cape of Good Hope to Europe or the Americas. The transport costs run to about 400 per bbl. in a 200,000-d.w.t. ship, compared with 520 in a 70,000-tonner. Each big ship can save a company about $1,000,000 a year in hauling costs...
...that great war, Williams argues, the only cease-fires are the truces of love, in which two people give each other to each other in an affinity of body and spirit. For a brief moment, they are immune to the world's malice, corruption and despair. In a transport of ecstasy, they defy the cruel and inexorable laws of the universe. Inevitably, the war is resumed...
...increasingly vocal in their criticism of the size, influence and performance of the military and its industrial suppliers (TIME cover, April 11). Last week the tarnish on Pentagon brass spread even further with the disclosure that the Air Force had falsified reports about the price of the C-5A transport plane under production by the Lockheed Aircraft Corp...
...apologetic statement in which he said: "I am determined to ensure that full and accurate information on C-5A procurement, and all other procurement matters, is given to the Congress and to the public promptly. I am also determined to ensure that past mistakes in procurement of this transport aircraft will not be repeated...