Word: johannesburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liner Comet got the take-off signal, swept down the runway at London Airport, its four turbines whistling a high pitch, and climbed seven miles into the air carrying a full load of 36 passengers, six crewmen and 30 bags of mail. The next day, as thousands watched at Johannesburg's Palmietfontein Airport, the silver and blue BOAC jet streaked down, ending its 6,724-mile trip. Total elapsed time: 23 hours, 38 minutes. This was 8¾ hours faster than BOAC's usual nights take. Yet by refueling at friendly Beirut instead of at anti-British Cairo...
...Khartoum's airport, wasted another half-hour at Livingstone, then regained so quickly that on the last leg Pilot R. C. Alabaster said: "We made wide sweeps to kill time so as not to arrive ahead of schedule." Even so, the Comet was two minutes early into Johannesburg...
Workaday apartheid, as applied by Malan, is simply another word for turning down the screws on the blacks. It is 100,000 Negroes jailed each year for failing to carry a pass. It is 60-year-old Jane Zuma, a Johannesburg washerwoman, trudging ten hot miles to deliver her mistress' laundry because she is not allowed to ride on the white man's buses. It is Veteran John Kumalo, a talented Negro broadcaster, beaten up and jailed on the way to his broadcasting studio, and released three days later, innocent of any offense. In Malan...
...thousands of Negroes have turned in sheer hopelessness to drink, drugs and crime. In the noisome slums that disfigure the outskirts of Cape Town, 200,000 Cape Colored live in fear of the Skolly Boys, a gang of Negro gangsters whose favorite murder weapon is a bicycle chain. In Johannesburg, it is the "Russians" who terrify white & black alike, chopping their victims with axes and leaving the bodies to be carried away by the night soil removers. In the Rand goldfields, police estimate, there are three murders every two days; in the concrete "locations" where the black miners live, separated...
With his new Comet service, Straight is banking on jets to make BOAC one of Britain's biggest dollar-earners. By June, the line will have five Comets on hand, be able to step up the Johannesburg flights to thrice weekly. When four more Comets are received, probably by year's end, BOAC hopes to launch Comet service between New York and Bermuda and New York and the Bahamas. Because of its rapid fuel consumption and limited range, BOAC can't use the Comet on the rich North Atlantic run. But it has ordered eleven...