Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MIXED-CLASS PLANES are being planned for transcontinental flights by T.W.A. (which recently led the move to cut transcontinental coach prices from $198 round trip to $160). T.W.A. wants to partition off the forward section of its Super G Constellations, load 19 coach passengers through a forward hatch, serve them no meals but give them the same fast, 8-hr, cross-country ride as first-class passengers. CAB will have to approve both price and partition...
President Eisenhower had carefully plotted his vacation plans. For the past two summers he had been hampered, on his annual arrival in Denver, with a load of unfinished business. For the first few weeks he had found himself tied to his desk at Lowry Air Force Base almost half of each day, signing bills and attending to leftover work from Washington. This summer, determined to relax for a couple of weeks at least, he had boned away at his chores before leaving on vacation. Last week his briefcase was empty, and except for some routine duties, Ike could look forward...
...trucks and jeeps. Reported TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast from Wolmi: "Tanks and .50-caliber machine guns were ready in reserve, but in the trucks the helmeted Americans made do with baseball bats, boxes of tear-gas bombs, and unloaded rifles. An Army officer explained: 'We're not loaded. We figure, if they come in, we've got enough time to load. We'll have no mass firing here. We'll only fire at those who fire...
...John Harding, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, took personal charge of the chase; airfields and ports were guarded, roadblocks set up. Before learning of the alarm, a police patrol car stopped a suspicious-looking truck near the racecourse at Ascot, recaptured a load of guns and arrested three Irishmen. But the others got away...
When Witness Dodge left the stand, it was clear that, after all the furor, his aim of 1953 was now on its way toward realization. The city of Memphis' decision to build its own power plant, thereby making the Dixon-Yates plan unnecessary, will 1) ease the load on TVA, 2) save money in the federal budget...