Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should be geared for years of cold peace. Last week Secretary Wilson happily read out a letter to this effect from the President: "We have incorporated new weapons of unprecedented tactical and strategic importance . . . We now have a sounder organization administratively . . . We have oriented our forces for the long haul...
...World War II, the villagers of Ronchamp (pop. 1,900), in France's Vosges foothills, faced an old. familiar problem: how to rebuild the chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut atop a nearby hill called Haul Lieu. Hallowed since pagan days, Haut Lieu lies near the invasion route through the Belfort Gap, and in war it makes a prime military observation post. Over the centuries the chapel has been repeatedly destroyed; each time it has been faithfully rebuilt by loyal parishioners...
VICKERS VISCOUNT, Britain's most successful postwar transport, will soon replace U.S. Convair 240s on short-haul routes on Holland's KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Vickers has sold nine Viscounts worth $11 million to KLM, landed orders for five planes from three U.S. corporations (U.S. Steel, Standard Oil Co. of California, Hughes Tool Co.), thus breaking into the lucrative business-flying field for the first time. Total Viscounts sold to date...
...world to cast off a stifling tangle of wartime and postwar controls on business and currency exchange. Since then, national production has doubled. Foreign investors have been looking toward Peru with hope, and moving their money in. And the present prosperity seems to be only the prelude to long-haul progress...
...portal" bus, designed by Lee-Norse Co., to cut the time a miner spends traveling from the surface to the mine's working area (for which he gets paid). The 90 minutes which miners now average riding into the mines on the same string of cars used to haul out coal, can be cut to 50 minutes by the bus. Price...