Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Putting the best possible face on the firings, Poland's economic bosses emphasize that there are fields in which labor is short in Poland-coal mining, construction, public transport. These will provide jobs for some of the displaced workers; others will probably return to the farm or find work in the devastated and unpopular western provinces that Poland got from Germany at the end of World War II. But the cold fact remains that the government apparently plans the dismissal of 200,000 to 300,000 workers for whom there will be no other jobs anywhere...
...airframe business. The J83 engine soon proved so promising for light jet aircraft that General Dynamics' Canadian subsidiary, Canadair Ltd., chose it as the power plant for the prototype of its new CL-41 trainer, and Lockheed will also use it for its Jet-Star executive transport. Fairchild added half a dozen other lines, from electronic guidance systems for missiles to an aluminum bridge much like a plane wing, in hopes of winning a slice of the highway-building program. While the Government puts up most of the money to build a new bridge, the trouble is that...
...carrot slice and fried parsley-all on a piece of bread. At least that is the view of Pan American World Airways, which last week was embroiled in a heated metaphysical battle with its European competitors over the nature of Lord Montagu's invention. The International Air Transport Association has agreed that airlines may serve only sandwiches on their new cut-rate transatlantic flights v. free full meals on regular flights. Pan American, which still considers the sandwich a thin layer of filling between two slices of bread, charges that European airlines are evading the rule against free meals...
...ENGINE CHARLIE" WILSON, ex-president of General Motors, will take deep plunge into shipping business because he believes another sea boom is coming. For several million dollars, Oswego Shipping Corp. (75% owned by Wilson and two friends) bought out Marine Transport Lines, which owns or operates 60 ships, controls one of world's biggest fleets of specialized vessels...
...housing market, already clipping along toward 1,050,000 new housing starts this year. Its goal: to raise the totals by another 100,000 houses, create 500,000 new jobs this year, and lay a solid floor under those sagging industries that lean heavily on home construction-appliances, lumber, transport...