Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reconvened in Washington last week to poke some more into the rats' nest of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Into the committee's hearing room came San Antonio's Roy J. Gilbert to tell how the Teamsters had tried to organize his 135-vehicle Southwestern Motor Transport, Inc. in 1955. When he balked at the Teamsters' demands, Gilbert said, they stoned and tossed homemade fire bombs at his trucks, planted marijuana in the cars of Southwestern employees, made threatening telephone calls. They also considered shooting Gilbert from ambush and wrecking his home with hand grenades given...
Touch & Go. At war's end Smith returned to American, convinced that the great strides made during the war in air transport would bring on the air age and a huge new air-travel market. Just as he had worked with Douglas on the DC-3, he encouraged the firm to build the four-motored, long-range DC-6s, boldly ordered a fleet of 125 DC-6s and shortrange, two-engined Consolidated Vultee CV-240s. As usual, he showed himself a master at timing and bargaining. So eager was Consolidated (now Convair) for orders to relieve its postwar slump...
...gamble paid off. Smith got a rock-bottom rental, and the other airlines were eventually forced to follow, but at much higher rates. When World War II began, Smith resigned from American to become an Army Air Corps colonel. He was made second-in-command of the Air Transport Command in Washington, ended up as a major general. His old boss, Lieut. General Harold L. George, gives him the "principal credit" for success. Used to cracking out orders himself, C.R. was not awed by brass. George remembers vividly the time Smith disagreed with General Henry ("Hap") Arnold, Army Air Force...
...most thoroughly flight-tested and debugged air transport ever to go into service, had 50,000 flying hours as a military tanker and commercial prototype before the first plane was delivered to American. The pilots are delighted with it-although their wage demands for the jet age may ground some of the airlines before the fight is over. The pilots insist that the third man in the jet cockpit be a pilot instead of an engineer (TIME, May 5), want more money ($45,000 a year for a Pan American flight captain v. $25,000 now) on grounds that...
BERLIN, Nov. 16--Willy Brandt, mayor of West Berlin, said yesterday he does not believe the Communists are going to blockade his city now. In a soothing radio address to fellow West Berliners, Brandt declared: "I do not believe that the American transport planes which are standing by will have to be used...