Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colombia, $95 million for highways, agriculture, railroads, and power development. Most dramatic project: a railroad along the winding Magdalena River to replace stern-wheeler river boats as Colombia's main transport, open up vast new areas for cattle production...
...PLANES are being offered to India at bargain prices in an effort to crack the air-transport market there. Indian Airlines, which wants to replace its fleet of obsolete U.S. and British planes, has an offer of twin-engine Ilyushin transports at about $200,000 apiece, with delivery promised within a year v. Western delivery schedules of two to three years for planes that cost upwards...
TRANSATLANTIC FARE CUTS will probably be introduced by U.S. overseas airlines in October. Round-trip tourist-class tickets selling for $400, about 20% below present minimum rates, will be restricted at first to 15-day round trips on U.S. carriers. European members of the International Air Transport Association blocked unlimited cut-rate service until April...
...TRANSPORT will be offered, to airlines in competition with U.S. craft. Russians are listing twin-jet TU-104 at $2,000,000, including spare parts, v. about $6,000,000 for U.S. Boeing 707 or Douglas DC-8. Russian transport is smaller, slower, shorter-ranged than U.S. planes and only slightly pressurized, but airmen expect dollar-short foreign airlines to buy some...
...merciless way in which her hope is broken is the theme of this moving book. The button-eyes of her shoes, a cracked lithograph of the Sacred Heart, and her aunt's photograph are the familiars of her lonely misery. These possessions symbolize the three elements which transport Judith Hearne to her doom-genteel poverty, a puritan concept of Catholicism, and the aunt who had exploited pity to keep her in domestic servitude...