Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found his vessel seaworthy, and turned to rescue. Andrea Dona's radio crackled as other ships reported positions. Fifteen miles away Captain Joseph Boyd had pushed his little (7,000 tons) freighter, Cape Ann, for a 55-minute run to Andrea Dona's side. The military transport, Private William H. Thomas, was 20 miles away. The destroyer escort Edward H. Allen, cruising off the coast in gunnery practice, was closing a 52-mile gap. And the old but agile lie de France, which had been running at 17 knots 45 miles to the east, had come hard about...
Many companies sacrificed profit gains to plow back huge amounts into research and development. Douglas Aircraft, which increased first-half sales by $17.2 million, saw its net drop from last year's by $860,000. Reason: huge research costs for the Douglas DC-8 jet transport. Better off was Cessna Aircraft. Its big spurt in private aircraft sales returned net earnings of $3.83 per share for the nine months ending June 30, up 50% from a year...
...course. At the end of the count, Polyak leaped from his seat and headed for the pilot's compartment. The others sprang into action against their fellow passengers, laying about them right and left with wrenches, floorboards, fists. In a moment the vintage twin-engined Douglas transport became the scene of one of the greatest airborne free-for-alls in flying history. "We knew someone aboard the ship was a Communist security agent," explained one of the wrench wielders later, "but we didn't know which...
Most of the pilots were scientists-chiefly meteorologists, electronics engineers, aerodynamicists-who devoted their spare time and their rainy hours to such pursuits as lectures by Geophysicist Joachim Kuettner on "A New Investigation of Stratospheric and Tropospheric Airflow in Powerful Mountain Waves," or "Research on the Transport of Freezing Nuclei and on Atmospheric Turbulence by Means of a Sailplane...
...Transport is spotty, and bricks arrive at building sites battered and bruised, soon fall to pieces. Indoors, the Russians put in hardwood floors while construction is still under way; by the time work is finished, floors are gouged and pitted. But Smith tempered his criticism with the reminder that "it's unfair to relate their standards to our standards. The Russians are intelligent people with an insuperable housing shortage. There's been a tremendous raising of standard of housing. They want to learn how to do better...