Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dulles talks almost blithely of using tactical nuclear weapons both as a deterrent to aggression and a force to meet it. The only way to employ such weapons would be to have them already on the scene--a feat which would take a prophet to arrange--or to transport them there. The latter is made more difficult by the fact that transportation facilities have continually been cut in order to keep bomber and missile programs untouched. The former would require not only a sixth sense and an unparalleled intelligence agency, but also the manpower to maintain whatever weapons...
While U.S. health authorities were studying more economical use of Asian-influenza vaccine, Britain was taking its flu lying down. An estimated 60,000 children in England and Wales were out of school. In several Midland industrial towns, transport workers were sick and bus service had to be curtailed. In Sheffield a third of the telephone operators were out, and 100 postmen took to their beds, leaving university students to fill in for them. Two British submarines were pulled out of NATO maneuvers because their crews had been...
BOEING AIRPLANE CO. has opened a wide lead in race among planemakers to put first jet transport into commercial service. So far, its 600-m.p.h., four-jet 707 is ahead of competing Douglas Aircraft's DC-8 in hours of test flying, firm orders (155 v. 123), expected delivery dates (late 1958 v. mid-1959). But Douglas will try a new angle to catch up. Instead of test-flying one plane, as Boeing has, Douglas will send up first eight or nine DC-8s for 60 hours or more each, thus hopes to accumulate enough flight time...
...incident was the newest in a long series that has embroiled U.S. airlines in a dust-raising quarrel with the State Department. Airmen charge that State's Office of Transport and Communications, the branch responsible for working out air agreements, is dispensing U.S. routes to foreign operators with far too lavish a hand, and getting little-or nothing-in return. The cumulative effect, say the lines, is that while U.S.-flag carriers flew 80% of all transatlantic traffic in 1947, today they account for slightly less than 50%, even though almost 70% of all passengers are U.S. citizens...
...part, Bristol was badly hampered by the red tape of the government's Transport Ministry, which had to approve new standards for the government-owned airline's new plane, and in addition ordered exhaustive fatigue tests on the Britannia after the crashes of the Comet jetliner. And BOAC itself made frequent design changes during the long months...