Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where the paper work leaves off the grave problems begin. The two greatest: tanker transport and dollars...
...collision of two commercial aircraft over the Grand Canyon took 128 lives (TIME, July 9), the search for a warning device to prevent such disasters in the future became a major concern of U.S. airlines. Last week the airlines finally thought they had found what they wanted. The Air Transport Association approved a collision alarm system blueprinted by Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a company as little known to the public as it is famed in aviation...
Tension in Cyprus took a new turn last weekwhen a grimy little two-stack transport flying the French tricolor putinto Limassol harbor. Moody Cypriots stared with astonishment as 1,400 blue-bereted paratroopers and 1,300 airmen moved without armed protection towards the tent city hastily built for them by theBritish near World War II Tymbou air base. If that did not give a clue to what was happening, the dispatch of another ship did. It was a 3,226-ton tanker named Bacchus, and it gurgled toward Cyprus with a full cargo of wine. The French had arrived...
...plants 1,100 miles apart last week, General Dynamics' Convair Division gave the U.S. a peek at two new developments in the deadly art of aerial warfare, one over sea, one over land. From San Diego, Convair's giant R 3 Y-2 Tradewind turboprop transport went aloft as the Navy's newest flying boat tanker, packing enough fuel for eight swept-wing jets as they snuggled up, four at a time, behind trailing funnel-fitted hoses. Even bigger news was Convair's new B58 Hustler bomber, a plane eight years in development as the nation...
...million francs ($28,500), ten paintings (including a Corot valued at $18,500), $2,800 worth of lingerie for his wife, $25,700 worth of jewelry, $1,100 worth of Havana cigars, ten typewriters, assorted washing machines, television sets and kitchen stoves, and a station wagon to transport his purchases back to the chateau. On his way home, he stopped to reserve a pew for himself and his family in the village church. He paid for everything by check...