Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AERIAL BUS will be built by ex-T.W.A. President Jack Frye in hopes of finding the long-sought-for replacement to the Douglas DC-3. Frye's projected high-wing, four-engine F-l will probably be built by a European company, sell for $350,000, haul five tons of cargo or 50 passengers at an aerial snail's pace (150 m.p.h.) but be able to use a very short runway...
Diplomatic Trip. Pibulsonggram also abolished press censorship. This enabled Bangkok newspapers to report that Pao's police had just made an unprecedented haul of 20 tons of contraband opium, and that government rewards paid out for the tip amounted to $1,000,000. Again, no body was arrested. Questioned at the Premier's next press conference, Police Chief Pao could not satisfactorily explain what had happened to the confiscated opium or to the $1,000,000 reward...
...real development of diesel power. G.M. turned out diesel trucks, tractors, power plants and locomotives by the thousands, provided the U.S. Navy with more diesel power than the entire horsepower of the prewar fleet. Since the war. the diesel has completed its conquest of U.S. railroads. Diesel locomotives now haul 86% of all rail passengers, 84% of all freight, save the railroads $600 million a year in fuel and maintenance. Fifty Class I railroads today are without a single steam engine...
...minority, including Pagala Baba, had retired to a maze of underground cells within the tunnel-honeycombed fortress, and had to be flushed out one by one with tear gas. In the courtyard the police found a huge chariot in which the mad monk's disciples were wont to haul him about. Statues of Pagala Baba were displayed in the gardens and orchards of the math. His bedroom was adorned with tiger skins and statuettes of nude women. Underground, behind steel doors, the police found an armory in which were stacked scores of bows and arrows, swords, spears, piles...
Fortnight ago, when the 19th race got under way, San Francisco Manufacturer Richard S. Rheem (steel containers and home appliances) and the crew of his 98-ft. ketch Morning Star knew they had small chance to win. Four times they had made the long haul, and twice they were first across the finish line off Diamond Head. But in both races the complicated calculations of the handicap formula* had given another ship the prize. This year Skipper Rheem, sailing against a record 52 other yachts, was ready to settle for the satisfaction of breaking his own uncorrected record crossing time...