Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister of Aircraft Production, already had some recommendations to make: 1) the design of civil aircraft, lately sacrificed to Britain's all-out war effort, should be resumed; 2) engineering preparations should be made for converting bombers into airliners (one Lancaster has already been converted into a transport plane called the York); 3) the aircraft industry should be put to work building prototypes of new and better airliners...
...Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair disclosed that Britain has taken steps to offset the world-round impact of the U.S. Air Forces' Transport Commands-an operation which is solely for war, but is bound to blaze the way for U.S. commercial operations after the war. The R.A.F. has formed its own Transport Command to work with British Overseas Airways Corp., whose transport operations have been sadly crimped. The R.A.F.'s famed Ferry Command, which has been whisking bombers across the North Atlantic for almost two years and has lately spread to the South Atlantic, will be subordinated...
...first is Chaplain (Capt.) Raymond B. Blakney of Williamstown, Mass., who possesses one of the most varied backgrounds of any instructor at the School. A hospital and transport chaplain for twelve months during the First World War, he was subsequently for eight years professor of mathematical physics at Fukien Christian University, Foochow, China, where he taught integral and differential calculus in Chinese. Upon his return to this country, lie spent six years as minister of the Sanford (Me.) parish of the Congregational Church and nine years as minister at the Williams College Church at Williamstown...
Faster Means Fewer. Britain's War Transport Minister Lord Leathers explained last week why the idea of concentrating exclusively on fast ships had been discarded: "Faster ships mean fewer ships. To build a 15-knot vessel takes half as long again as an 11-knot vessel of the same carrying capacity, and the faster ship requires 50% more labor and material." To increase speed by one-third, power must be trebled...
British railroads last spring and summer ran 365 special trains, assigned 8,000 goods vans (Britain's little boxcars) to carry nothing but flowers from country to city. To free these cars for war hauls, the Ministry of War Transport has decreed that flowers cannot be shipped by train this season...