Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moon, he can eventually transport missiles. Missile sites located underground, or planted in craters on the far side of the moon (never seen from earth), would be beyond observation, and thus beyond target spotting, of earth-based attackers. Even if there were a missile exchange between earth and moon forces, lunar missiles would have the advantage of time and accuracy, and of direct guidance systems that are already in existence...
...other readymade clothing of new, washable fabrics that are still high-priced in Britain. Novelties such as blue jeans, California apple juice, well-designed U.S. toys, and costume jewelry should also fare well. But Detroit automakers expect no gain, since steep British import duties and sales taxes, added to transport costs, double U.S. price tags. U.S. cars are considered too big, too flary, and too gas-thirsty compared to British makes. In fact, last year's 650-car U.S. import quota was not even filled...
...Frightened." Last week, after new Transport Minister Ernest Marples had hailed M1's first $59 million link as "a powerful weapon," the highway took on the appearance of a battleground. Said Marples, hurrying back to the safety of London: "I was frightened." Though the throughway is soundly engineered-for high speeds, it soon became plain that British drivers...
RADAR FIGHT is brewing between Federal Aviation Agency and Air Transport Association. FAA wants weather radar on all four-engined passenger planes, but airlines, which have ordered radar on nearly all new planes, argue that it would be too expensive (up to $80,000 per plane) to equip old craft...
...many jet-age problems facing the world airline industry, the most pressing is how to find enough passengers to fill all the expensive new planes that will soon be flying. At the 15th annual meeting of the International Air Transport Association in Tokyo last week, Director General Sir William P. Hildred posed the problem, and provided an obvious answer: "We shall have to feed progressively larger gobbets of traffic to these monsters or they will eat us up, capital...