Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Representatives of steel, electricity, and air transport last night defined industrial relations as "the art of getting things done through other people...
Takeoff. In tiny Varney Air Transport, operating 520 miles through Texas and Colorado, Six found his future. He bought half the company (100 shares at $500 each), raised another $90,000 to help buy three twin-engined Lockheed 125, and became Varney vice president of operations at $400 a month. Varney changed its name to Continental, and Six, made president in 1938, slowly plotted routes outward from Pueblo to Denver, by 1948 had 2,772 miles through Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma. As a further step, Six made interchange deals with American Airlines, United and Braniff. which permitted...
...anywhere in the 200-sq.-mi. archipelago, Heath took flying lessons, bought a Piper Tri-Pacer. He keeps cars at Friday Harbor and Eastsound, and a third at Bellingham, where he takes his more serious cases for hospital treatment. He also added a 20-ft. cabin cruiser to his transport fleet, painted it shocking pink for easy visibility. He makes it a point to leave word of his whereabouts-even on his rare fishing trips-so that local pilots can find him in emergencies, and signal to him when he is needed. Then his British-born wife Evelyn takes...
...Juice by Sea. Sale of fresh Florida orange juice in Northern states will get a boost from Fruit Industries Inc., which has solved the high cost of refrigerated land transport with S.S. Tropicana, a vacuum-sealed stainless-steel tanker. The ship can carry 1,500,000 gal. (the juice of 70 million oranges) on a 56-hour run from Cocoa, Fla. to Long Island, where the juice is put in cartons for sale in twelve states and Canada. Company spends only $15,000 per tanker trip v. $265,000 if the juice came by land...
Aside from fighters, the budget cutbacks may also affect the production of other planes, mainly light bombers and transports. Douglas, for example, will phase out its twin-jet B66 bomber in 1958. It will also feel the budget pinch on its previous high hopes for the mammoth C-132 transport (see cut), a new turboprop aircraft that can carry 200,000 lbs. of cargo 3,500 miles at 450 m.p.h. speed. Instead of receiving a big contract, Douglas may in the end produce only a few of the planes. But it will still have a heavy backlog of orders...