Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold L. George now heads Peruvian International Airways at Lima at about $50,000 a year; strategic bombing expert Lieut. General Barney McK. Giles is vice president in charge of engineering for Air Associates Inc.; former War Shipping Administrator Vice Admiral Emory S. Land is president of the Air Transport Association...
...Britain's downfall (the islands were in the middle of a high-pressure area that extended from central Russia to northern Iceland).* It lashed coal ships to their piers and snow-blocked 75,000 coal-laden railroad cars. Britons shivered in unheated trams, trains and subways (most transport was drastically cut), squinted under nickering candlelight in unheated offices (there was a run on aspirin, a coal-tar derivative, for eyestrain headaches), came home to huddle around the kitchen stove and to hope that a threatened cut in gas would not add to their miseries. London's Central Electricity...
Brazil. The 50,000 U.S. troops and civilians who helped garrison Brazil during the war are gone. So are the air personnel who once made Natal the world's biggest air transport base. But overalled technicians and some military personnel still keep the Brazilian air bases in good running order...
...good enough. Energetic Jennie Lee, his dark-haired wife, is a Tribune director, and many a friendly tea at their house could pass for an editorial conference. Other directors: bright, up-&-climbing Michael Foot, leftish M.P., and Patricia Strauss, wife of another founder who is now under secretary of transport...
...rising expenses and falling traffic, thought that rates must go up before long. This would be a doubtful solution of their troubles. Higher rates would probably mean even fewer passengers on planes now flying with many empty seats. Said a Standard & Poor's analysis of near-future air transport earnings: "Drab...