Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over Shanghai's airfields on Christmas night the fog rolled, and China's budding air transport system had a situation it was not qualified to meet. One incoming airline pilot had no experience with G.C.A. (ground-controlled approach, the modern homing system which U.S. airlines still hope to get). Two others tried to work out their approach problems on ill-maintained radio sets, which failed them. Result: all three crashed, in the worst disaster in the history of commercial aviation. Injured, 18; dead...
External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent promised Quebec 73 seats (instead of the present 65) in the House, under the new redistribution plan. Finance Minister Doug Abbott, who speaks French like, a Frenchman, promised taxation relief. Transport Minister Lionel Chevrier promised that Quebeckers would get an "equitable" share of Dominion Government contracts. Solicitor General Joseph Jean did no promising but plenty of praising...
...just in time. He pulled back mightily on the yoke to drive the big plane over the smaller. It was a good try: a few more inches of overlap would have sent 85 people to certain death in aviation's worst disaster. As it was, it was air transport's most incredible escape...
...rare day of rest, warmth and comfort. The odds had favored Bill Butler's spending Christmas high on glacier-scarred Mount Rainier. For four days he had been battling Arctic cold, avalanches and the dead-white swirl of alpine blizzards in a search for a lost Marine Corps transport plane. But a fall on rock-fanged ice had finally sent him skiing painfully back to his snug cottage in a timber-bordered Government camp. With his torn ribs healing he would idle before a snapping log fire, listen to the faint roar of the Nisqually River, and watch...
According to Skaarup and Winther, a bobby-soxer is a flapper; ladies' undies are called twilights; a drizzle is a boy who always walks with the same girl; and when you say attaboy, you mean either bravo, get at it again, or a member of an air transport auxiliary corps. After consulting the dictionary, Danes would have no trouble following the English dialogue of such Hollywood hits as Himlen kan vente (Heaven Can Wait), might tackle the best-selling Der gror et Trae i Brooklyn in the original...