Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High vacation costs and lack of transport and resorts are plaguing our staffs in warring China. Nevertheless, Fred Gruin reports from Nanking that he has the name of a veteran missionary in Kuling, China's cool summer capital, who may be able to find a cottage for him there, and Shanghai Bureau Chief William Gray has his eye on a small hotel on an island off Wusih in Lake Tai Hu, northwest of Shanghai. "Wusih," says Gray, "is a sort of Chinese Venice, where you travel mostly by motor houseboat, a top-heavy but pleasant craft with attendants...
Some of them plainly belonged on the back pages among the shipping and travel notes. At LaGuardia airport, an American Overseas Airlines transport unloaded 30 dogs from Frankfurt, Germany and 97 reptiles from London, including twelve adders, three asps, four viperine snakes, 50 slowworms and two sandboas. On another plane from the Philippines, en route to The Bronx Zoo, came eleven tree shrews, three monkey-eating eagles, 14 giant cloud rats and 30 tarsiers. The tarsier (TIME, March 3), an insect-eating cousin of the monkey, is smaller than a squirrel, weighs only half a pound, has long fingers tipped...
Summing up the airplane's anti-human aspects in a weighty book (Human Factors in Air Transport Design; McGraw-Hill; $6), Dr. McFarland concludes that modern planes, for all their silvery slickness and speed, are still dangerous, noisy, uncomfortable and a generally unsatisfactory means of travel...
...ordinary transport plane, Mather pointed out, was said to have kept pace with a cluster of plates for several minutes. This would have been impossible at the super velocity of a guided missile of the V-2 variety...
Current U.S. consumption is 5,346,000 bbl. daily. Refinery output, because of inadequate transport for crude, is down to 4,662,000 bbl. a day. The Armed Services are also pinched...