Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radar, electronic computers to guide 2,000-m.p.h. missiles such as the U.S. Bomarc. The tough-minded decision left the proud R.C.A.F. with little future as a combat flying force. Its role will be that of a missile operator, plus such auxiliary jobs as anti-submarine patrol and air transport...
...long last, dreamboat Private Elvis Presley was at sea. But before a military transport could waft him (along with 1,382 other G.I.s) to his truck-driving trick in West Germany, there was time at the dock for the slimmed-down crooner to record a tearful Christmas message to one and all (to be sold commercially), and drawl a quote or two for 100 waiting newsmen. Brightly confessing that his ideal girl was "female," Elvis showed why as he leaned down to give an impassioned fan a farewell nuzzle...
That was too much for Reservation Manager John Macomber. On April 30 he "verbally" fired Joan-not knowing that she had completed her 90-day probation period just the day before, and thus could not be given the air without formal charges. Joan's union (the Air Transport Division of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks) raised such a howl that Pan Am reinstated her. Last week Joan was back in the news as a pretty pawn in collective bargaining...
...Exposition city has its own transportation system, since no private vehicles larger than baby carriages are permitted. Open buses and small motorized carriages constitute the ground transport. Cable cars carry tourists above the Fair. And the Expo has its own "heliport" for aerial sight-seeing and heliocopter service to Amsterdam, Paris and other European cities...
...From a southern Formosan base, hardbitten pilots of Marine Air Group 11 were flying round-the-clock cover for Nationalist transport planes airdropping supplies to Little Quemoy. At night the marines used F4D Skyrays; during the day they relied on FJ Furies...