Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wayne Parrish was the first Western newsman to confirm that the Russians had converted their TU-104, the Tupolev medium jet bomber, into a commercial air transport. From Moscow last winter he was the first to report on how the Russians were trying to raise their airline standards to qualify for international competition. In 1953 he scored a beat with details of West Germany's plans to revive Lufthansa, the German airline. In 1954. after the fiasco of the British Comet jetliners, he created a sensation in Britain by reporting that BOAC had contracted to buy U.S. Douglas...
...coffee fincas and cattle ranches, parlayed them into a fortune estimated at $60 million-some $20 million more than Nicaragua's annual budget. He reputedly owned one-tenth of the country's farmland, plus interests in lumber, liquor, soap, cement, power, textiles, cotton-ginning, sugar-milling, air transport, merchant shipping, even a barbershop-an estimated 430 properties. "You'd do the same thing yourself if you were in my place," he used to explain. Nicaragua advanced a little; e.g., more than 600 miles of all-weather roads were built to connect the Somoza properties, but it remains...
More important, although the 101st was designed for airlifting, there are still general doubts about where its transport planes are coming from. Last May Air Force General Otto P. Weyland, boss of the Tactical Air Command, told a Senate investigating subcommittee that under present capabilities, the Air Force could not move a combat-loaded division from the U.S. to the Far East in less than "a week or ten days." The implication: the transports needed to move the 101st in trigger-quick time may simply not be available...
...EXECUTIVE PLANE, first U.S. four-engined transport designed specifically for business flying, will be produced by Cessna Aircraft. Now being test-flown, Cessna's new Model 620 will seat up to nine passengers in fully pressurized cabin, will have 260 m.p.h. cruising speed, and range of 1,700 miles. Price tag, for 1958 delivery...
...ever regretted the expenditures. The Intracoastal Waterway more than paid its way during the bitter U-boat warfare of World War II, when the U.S. used it to transport 90 million tons of vital supplies, safe from preying U-boats in the Gulf. But the Waterway has really proved its value in peacetime. At least 500 companies (among them: Reynolds Metals, Alcoa, Monsanto, Dow Chemical) have built plants and warehouses along its banks, while thousands of others use it for cheap transportation. One enterprising Texan has built up a booming business carrying truck trailers up and down the canal...