Word: refuelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters, although it has no troops to command. Most of the concrete progress at Fontainebleau has been on the technical level. Map work and photographic interpretation have been standardized, as well as some technical equipment, such as naval couplings, which will permit ships of all Western Union navies to refuel one another at sea. The metric linear measure system has been accepted by Western Union artillery, but centigrade has not yet triumphed over Fahrenheit. Basic manuals for all Western Union forces will be published. The five sovereign nations have not, however, exchanged their secret codes...
When Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province 2½^ months ago, U.S. airlines feared that things would be changed at Newfoundland's Gander airport. There, under the "Bermuda Agreement" with Great Britain (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946), the airlines had been able to: 1) refuel for their transatlantic flights, and 2) pick up and discharge passengers (traffic rights). The agreement ended when Newfoundland joined the Dominion, since Canada had never granted traffic privileges to U.S. lines. Thus she had a strong card to play for more air rights from...
...tiny, single-engined Aeronca, Pilots Bill Barris and Dick Riedel, of Fullerton, Calif., broke a ten-year-old flight endurance record (726 hours), vowed to stay aloft until they had passed 1,000. To refuel, they dropped to five feet from the ground, picked up fuel, oil and food from a car speeding down the runway at 70 miles an hour...
...ground that they would not be much faster than trains or buses. Southwest sped up its ground operations until now a DC-3 can discharge passengers, load new ones, and take off again only 90 seconds after it taxis to a stop (six extra minutes if it has to refuel). Southwest has trimmed the time by such tricks as keeping one engine running, dropping open a door which also serves as a staircase...
...first boss, quit, Jack Connelly moved in with a meat-ax. He trimmed out most of the top brass, made the survivors double in it. Southwest's only remaining vice president, Operations Chief Ted Mitchell, flies 25 hours a month as a pilot and all pilots refuel their own planes...