Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pure jetliner capable of flying around the world to a regular timetable. In 1958, or soon after, we shall have the Comet IV, capable of flying regularly and economically on both transatlantic and Commonwealth routes. The R.A.F. has the Comet II in use as a regular military jet transport...
Major General Pedro Aramburu's government followed up with large-scale jailings. An estimated 3,000 to 5,000 Peronistas were behind bars; 125 labor leaders were loaded aboard a navy transport to be sent to distant Patagonia, Argentina's more than adequate substitute for Siberia...
Written in 1942, when O'Casey was nearing 60, and loosely concerned with the Dublin transport workers' strike of 1913, Red Roses bears all the marks of his later, less realistic writing. The themes are the expected ones, but the orchestration is more mystical and ornate, the form more vagrant and diffuse. Though pivoting on a strike and an O'Casey-like young idealist (Kevin McCarthy) who is killed in it, the events, far from displaying any clear dramatic line, are never really dramatized at all. Garrulous minor characters outshine those involved in action, Dublin overshadows individual...
Died. Arthur Ernest ("Jock") Tiffin, 60, head, since June, 1955, of Britain's largest (1,300,000) and most influential labor union, the Transport and General Workers' Union; of cancer; in London...
...many ways he lives a life that is beyond the comprehension of most of his car owners. Platoons of subordinates jump when he twitches. Garages filled with gleaming limousines and beaming chauffeurs stand ready to transport him wherever he desires. A private 18-plane air force of multi-engined, red-white-and-blue airplanes is at his disposal. Private secretaries and public-relations men take care of bothersome detail, see to it that Cadillacs, hotel suites, restaurant tables and theater seats are there when and where he wants them. High-salaried assistants smooth his path, greet him wherever he arrives...