Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Repair and modernize Iran's corroded catalytic crackers, sulphur-coated pipelines, neglected transport. Probable cost: $200 million...
Just before the doors, closed on the big silver and red R.C.A.F. transport, the crowd gave three cheers and a tiger. The four propellers blew back a shower of powdery snow; the plane taxied out to position and roared down the runway. Next day St. Laurent was in London for lunch and a short talk with Prime Minister Churchill. This week he was scheduled to go on to Paris and Bonn, visit Canadian army and air force bases, then continue the six week, 30,000-mile tour that will take him to Rome, Karachi, New Delhi, Colombo, Jakarta, Manila, Seoul...
BOEING'S jet transport, first in the U.S.. will be unveiled next month. The $20 million, 120-passenger, four-engine plane will get its engines and instruments installed by June, make its maiden flight some time in August...
Twenty years before the American Revolution, George Washington saw the need for East-West water transport up the Potomac Valley; after the war he became president of the Potomac Company, which built canals and locks to bypass falls and shoals in the Potomac River itself. The waterway eventually became the famed Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, and by the mid 1800s, its mule-drawn canal boats hauled great tonnages of freight between Washington and Cumberland, Md. But over the next 100 years, the railroads forced it into disuse...
Possible commercial use: as a medium range (500 miles) transport between big airliners and short-haul helicopters...