Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly after 10 o'clock one morning last week, a frail man in a light grey suit stepped out of a Soviet-built IL-14 transport onto the tarmac of Belgrade's Zemun Airport. Dutifully, the visitor surrendered himself to a welcoming bearhug from his stocky, sun-bronzed host, accepted bouquets from four dewy-eyed young Pioneers, and acknowledged the salute of a snappy, blue-uniformed honor guard. Then Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka and Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito headed off across the Yugoslav capital in a motorcade whose first three cars were a Rolls...
Krishnamachari rose in Parliament to announce that there would be "some scraping and pruning of the edges of the plan. Future planning will be motivated by realism." Krishnamachari declared that the government was still determined to hold onto the core of the plan-power, coal, steel and transport-but he warned bluntly: "Make no mistake: we need large amounts of foreign aid to save even the core...
Ghostly survivals of Mussolini's "Second Roman Empire" still exist-the Bureau for the Colonization of Ethiopia, the Imperial African Transport Commission, the Commission for Control of Albanian Banks, etc. Under a decree of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1819, deriving from a contract made in 1594, the government still ceremoniously pays Naples $21 every year for the upkeep of military orphans. It still advertises old scholarships that pay 16?^ a year to the winner-even though it now costs 32?^ to apply. In the Rome recorder's office; all documents are still laboriously transcribed...
...cargo carried to an Arctic base. This alone is a big advantage, but to have military value, any installation on the icecap needs good supply routes to the outside world. Airlift is too expensive and dangerous, and weather on the icecap is often too rough for surface transport. So the engineers are putting roads under the ice too. With a Peters plow they dig a long trench 20 ft. deep. They roof it temporarily with curved, corrugated sheet metal, and cover the metal with snow. After the snow has had a few days to pack and harden, the metal...
With 1,149.610 doses of vaccine already released, the rush for protection has begun. An estimated 30.000 cases of Asian flu have already been reported in the U.S., and demand for shots is heavy. Among groups who have received shots so far: transport workers in Seattle, policemen in Kansas City, medical personnel in most areas...