Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jets had scrambled into the sky for a look at an intruder inside Russia's southern border. It was, in fact, an unarmed, four-engined U.S. Air Force C-130 transport carrying 17 men. In flying a course from Trabzon to Van, Turkey in high winds and bad weather, the C-130 had strayed over the Turkish "fence" into Communist territory, possibly confused by high-strength directional signals from Soviet radio stations. Following the vectors from their own ground radar stations, the Russians sped toward the target area, barking pilots' combat chatter over the radio. The monitors caught...
...target. Attack! I am 201, I am attacking the target ... Attack, attack, 218, attack . . . The target is a transport, four-engined. I am attacking the target . . . Target speed is 300 [kilometers-186 m.p.h.. I am going along with it. It is turning toward the fence . . . The target is burning. There's a hit . . . The target is banking . . . Open fire . . . 218, are you attacking? Yes, yes . . . The target is burning . . . The tail assembly is falling off the target . . . I am in front of the target . . . Look at him. He will not get away. He is already falling...
Cruising on automatic pilot 35,000 ft. over the Atlantic last week, a new Pan American 707 jet transport suddenly nosed into a steepening glide that pressed 124 aboard tightly to their seats. Fighting heavy gravity forces, Captain W. Waldo
Besides dislocating labor, the shock programs disastrously snarled Red China's transport system. In early December 70% of the railroad cars moving in and out of Shanghai were serving the blast furnaces. To provide the city with even the barest minimum of food, railwaymen were driven to perching live hogs or baskets of fowl atop cars already overloaded with ore, pig iron or coal...
Concept for Chaos. Late last month, apparently aware of the crying need for a sensible priority system in the allocation of labor and transport, Peking's bureaucrats ordered a cutback in the backyard blast-furnace campaign. But all signs are that the shock-program concept still prevails. Currently, Red China's masses are engrossed in a drive to collect and distribute 10 billion tons of fertilizer; the nation's steel production target for 1959 is set for 18 million tons, a 64% increase over alleged production last year. Says one Hong Kong hand: "If they got snarled...