Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brand-new four-motored, 60-passenger Lockheed Constellation he took off from Burbank, Calif, at 3:56 (P.W.T.), landed at Washington, D.C. six hours and 58 minutes later. Average speed: 355 m.p.h. He cracked his own seven-year transcontinental record by 30 minutes, smashed the nine-year-old transport record by 3 hours, 24 minutes...
...Britain's desire for a tight International Air Transport Authority is much too restrictive for the U.S., which had 80% of the world's commercial air business before the war. But there should at least be an international body to set up technical flying standards (meteorology, landing-field and safety specifications, etc.). ¶ Government subsidies should be kept at a minimum and never used, as Berle put it, "to knock someone else...
...Englishmen, whom the world has sometimes accused of allowing colonials to fight their battles, took pride in the fact that well over half of them (387,996) were men from the United Kingdom. Yet the strange fact (announced by Philip J. Noel-Baker, for the Ministry of War Transport) was that in the same period 588,742 Britons had become highway victims...
That night a transport plane noted a blazing fire high in the frontier mountains. Next morning General Wingate's air officer, Colonel Philip Cochran, U.S.A.A.F., sent out search planes which spotted burned-out wreckage on the mountainside. Last week ground searchers reached the spot and reported that all the occupants of the plane, including Orde Charles Wingate, one of the military geniuses of World War II, were dead...
...from U.S. authorities did Pan Am institute improvements such as night flying, which domestic lines had begun years earlier. As for Juan Trippe: he "desires all the advantages of the private-enterprise system and none of its disadvantages. ... He would seek Government support and subsidy for his private air transport monopoly . . . permitting him to suppress commercial competitors in the field and yet hold the system under private commercial control...