Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Returning to Washington last week from a grueling, 24,000-mile trip to Formosa, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles got down from an Air Force KC-135 jet transport to face a battery of cameras and microphones. Question: "Did Chiang Kai-shek agree to a reduction of forces on the offshore islands?" Dulles: "We talked about matters far more fundamental than that. That's just a detail...
...blockaded Suez Canal, Iran last week signed an agreement with its Baghdad Pact partner, Turkey, for a $500 million oil pipeline. Presumably, oil from the rich new northern field of Qum will be piped over the mountains to a Mediterranean port in southern Turkey. Estimated savings in oil transport costs...
...cleared for operation at Idlewild, but was still undergoing testing at London Airport. Racing one another, as the old Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads had once muscled each other in their drive to roll back the Western frontiers, Pan Am and BOAC had each charged into jet transport head on, in determination to be first across the Atlantic. Pan Am's consolation: soon the U.S. line will be flying transatlantic jets daily, while BOAC will run once a week until it receives shipment of new planes...
...first rivalry was really just prologue. By New Year's major U.S. airlines will be flying timetable jet trips from New York to California. San Francisco, once no days away from New York by sailing packet, 2½ days away by rail and eight hours by nonstop piston transport, will move to a short distance of 4½ hours. The 49th state of Alaska will be closer to Washington-nine hours or so-than was the capital of Delaware...
...itself, the jet transport age would not do much to solve the world's problems (military jets are already old hat), except, possibly, to put Secretary of State John Foster Dulles more places more often. But its advent was another milestone in the oldest and most adventurous struggle of all: man's indefatigable drive to conquer his own environment...