Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diefenbaker alighted from his Canadian Air Force transport at London Airport with a preconference statement as reassuring to Britons as Big Ben's chimes. "I can think of no prouder opportunity to which a newly elected Prime Minister of Canada could be summoned," said he. The British seemed exhilarated by the prospect of a fresh Canadian voice in the Commonwealth family. To Diefenbaker as Prime Minister of the senior Dominion, and to Ghana's beaming Nkrumah, representing the newest member of the family, went the public's warmest cheers...
...Stuart Symington, onetime Air Force Secretary, said the directive in fiscal 1958 could stop the purchase of all Convair B58 bombers and F106 jet fighters, halt the procurement of McDonnell's F-101B jet fighter, Republic's F-105 jet fighter and Lockheed's C-130 transport, might also slow down production of Boeing's KC-135 jet tanker and B-52 intercontinental jet bomber. It could cancel all fiscal 1958 orders for such missiles as Northrop's Snark, Bell's Rascal, North American's Navaho, and scrub some orders for Hughes...
Coleman acquired a deposit in California's Death Valley. In 120° heat he began mining borax in the valley 280 ft. below sea level. To transport the ore over jagged peaks and through the desert to Mojave, Calif., he formed the famed 20-mule team (actually 18 mules and two horses), was soon hauling out 2,500,000 tons of ore annually...
...FARE CUT on North Atlantic is being pushed by CAB. Board turned down request by the International Air Transport Association to boost ticket prices by 5%, urged a drop in rates, which are now 70% above U.S. domestic air fares...
Lieut. General William H. Tunner, 50, European Air Force boss, trading hats with Global Warrior Everest, takes over as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. "Terrible" Tunner, impatient, coldly efficient, has made his biggest mark as a top transport troubleshooter. West Pointer Tunner headed up the wartime Air Transport Command's ferrying division, later brilliantly steered the arduous Burma-China supply shuttle over "the Hump," the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, and the combat air supply in Korea. (A Tunner-made motto: "We can fly anything, anywhere, anytime.") The job of European Air Force boss was Tunner's first...