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...enough equipment. As a result, said Howe, the arrangement with Transocean Air Lines, a U.S. firm which had brought over most of the immigrants under a T.C.A. subcontract, would end on April 15. That, said Howe, would help Canada conserve U.S. dollars. Furthermore, Transocean was using "substandard" equipment. (Transocean uses U.S.-made DC-4s; Trans-Canada uses Canada-made North Stars, i.e., modified DC-6s with British engines...
Chief among the questions under fire, according to John P. Chandler '48, acting program chairman, will be the Simpson Report which last year found the Cambridge educational system substandard...
Canadian radar expert Lieut. Commander Harold D. McCormick explained the radar failure as a case of "substandard propagation." This means, he said, that when the air becomes warmer and dryer as altitude increases (an unusual condition), "it is possible for the waves from the radar transmitter to skip over the target...
...both enormous. About as much land is irrigated in India today as in all the rest of the world. The Empire's biggest iron and steel plant is at Jamshedpur. The British had built up in India an incorruptible judicial system, a good police force, a vast (if substandard) network of roads, and the world's fourth largest railway system...
...some 300 passengers emerged sizzling. They promptly fired off a petition charging that the ship was, in effect, a floating flophouse. Yet the Maritime Commission made no move to withdraw the Marine Flasher or six similar troop-type ships from Atlantic passenger service. It knew that its ships were substandard but it kept them operating only because transatlantic ship space is so scarce...