Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dunster obtained from the General Court the Charter under which the University still operates. The purposes of the College stated in this document are "the advancement of all good literature artes and Sciences." It represented an early version of a liberal education...
...also take satisfaction from the fact that CAT's new management, headed by ex-Pan American Pilot George A. Doole Jr., vice chairman, has managed to turn his idea into a moneymaking operation. With a reputation for flying anything, anywhere, anytime, CAT was right on the spot flying charter flights for the U.S. Air Force during the Korean war, helped out during the fight for Dienbienphu in Indo-China, where CAT pilots buzzed through murderous antiaircraft fire to drop French paratroops, munitions and medical supplies. As a scheduled airline, 60% owned by Nationalist Chinese, 40% by its U.S. backers...
...immediately without ruining the rest of the piece, the introduction provided by Ruth Nanda Anshen is a mighty blast, especially for such a small trumpet. In her forward to the series, (Miss or Mrs.?) Anshen manages to embrace the Declaration of Independence, the rights of man, the United Nations' charter, Ruth Benedict, Buddha, and the hobo party platform in a prospectus with little perspective...
...private citizen of Bechuanaland, with all the rights thereof, permitted to return at last to his homeland. But to a hundred thousand Ba-mangwato tribesmen whose kraals spread over 40,000 sq. mi. of Bechuanaland, Seretse Khama, 34, was still the chief. Last week, as a charter aircraft flew Seretse back from six years' exile in Britain, the Bamangwato, with their wives and children, crowded the airport at Francistown by the thousands. Many had trekked for days through the parched African bush to be there in time for his arrival. "Our chief is home again!" they screamed...
...debate, the Federal Maritime Board finally agreed last week to allow American Coal Shipping Inc., an export company formed by Lewis' U.M.W., seven coal producers and three coal-hauling railroads (Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, the Virginian) to lease 30 surplus Government-owned Liberty ships at an annual charter of $127,282 per vessel. They will use them to boost U.S. coal exports to Europe, South America and Japan. Though many shipping lines protested bitterly, Lewis and friends argued that the fleet will be able to carry 2,500,000 tons more coal each year, thus provide more jobs...