Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good-neighbor contrast the same week: 1,500 farmers and farmers' wives from the Polish town of Siemiatycze (rhymes with Shame ya witch ya) trekked 100 miles to Warsaw, mobbed the U.S. embassy on nothing more than the strength of a wild rumor that the U.S. would transport anybody who wanted to settle in Alaska. Key reason why the rumor swept on through village after village: Communist officials and newspapers insisted that the rumor...
...newsmen got no official help in keeping up with the duke. Though the prince is traveling by private jet plane, propeller transport and yacht, no British reporter-not even one who is accredited to Buckingham Palace-was allowed aboard. Following as best they might, the newsmen could expect only rudeness or a quarterdeck tongue-lashing when they got close. The duke has been especially testy about the swarms of Indian photographers. At New Delhi he asked irritably, "Who are all these people?", and turned to Prime Minister Nehru to remark cuttingly: "I thought there was a film shortage in your...
...total of the executed stood at 302, with more to come. On trial for their lives in Santiago were 20 army pilots and 20 bombardiers, charged with "genocide" for bombing and strafing "open towns" in rebel-held Oriente province. Many of the flyers claimed that they were transport pilots. But Castro himself has already condemned them as "the worst criminals of the Batista regime...
...government itself touched off the race for applications with recently completed geological maps showing formations of an oil-bearing type extending through the Arctic as far as Ellesmere Island, 490 miles from the North Pole. To aid future prospectors for oil as well as other minerals, the Department of Transport plans to open northern airfields (see map) to private flyers, maintain stores of supplies and equipment for them to buy as they need...
...Depression, Frye merged Standard into Western Air Express, which later merged with Transcontinental Air Transport to, become Transcontinental & Western Air, a pioneering coast-to-coast airline. (T.W.A. billed itself as "The Lindbergh Line," kept Charles Lindbergh on the payroll as an adviser, but dropped the title in 1938 when Lindbergh made isolationist speeches for America First...