Word: transport
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reunion of Queen Elizabeth and her husband in Portugal after his return from a four-month cruise through the Commonwealth. No less than 150 eager pressmen elbowed one another aside on the tarmac at Lisbon's Montijo Military Air Base as the Queen's gleaming Viscount transport headed...
...workers ride, on the grounds that tickets for all available seats had already been sold, and hundreds of walking Negroes were arrested on the roads and herded into jails on cooked-up charges. The Negroes still refused to ride the buses. "We must smash this boycott," said Transport Minister Ben Schoeman. "It's only a test by the African National Congress of its power. If they want a showdown, they'll get it." But when one big Johannesburg chain store, accepting the government's get-tough advice, threatened to fire three Negroes for coming late to work...
...Neville Chamberlain, fell into political decline; of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered while he was delivering a speech on Franco-British unity; in Reims, France. Hore-Belisha did much to prod his nation into preparedness, probably will be recalled by most Britons for his term (1934-37) as Minister of Transport, when he installed orange, flickering "Belisha beacons" at crosswalks, got tagged Public Bore No. 7 (Bernard Shaw rated first) by Daily Express readers...
...week's end Vice President Nixon, with his wife and children, went in the rain to Washington's National Airport to bid the King goodbye. As Saud boarded a Constellation bound for the Azores, where a Spanish plane would transport him to his next stop in Spain, Nixon said he hoped that the bad weather "doesn't leave a bad impression on Your Majesty." Replied Saud of Arabia: The rain was of no consequence; he would remember "the warmth of the heart...
Died. Willard Saxby Townsend, 61, onetime Chicago redcap who began organizing railroad porters in 1934, fought to gain employee status for redcaps (until 1938 most were paid entirely in tips), formed the International Brotherhood of Red Caps in 1937, brought his union (renamed the United Transport Service Employees) into the C.I.O. in 1942, later (1955) became one of two Negro vice presidents of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.; of a kidney ailment; in Chicago...