Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smiles & Salutes. Perhaps one million Indians were massed at the airport or lined the twelve-mile route when a twinengined Soviet transport, escorted by eight Indian jets, arrived in Delhi. Out stepped Nikolai Bulganin and waggled a light straw hat. Behind him came Nikita Khrushchev and waggled a light straw hat. A wave of onlookers broke over steel barricades and had to be beaten back by police swinging steel-tipped staves. Garlands formed nooses about the necks of the visitors, and an aimless cheer resolved itself into an intelligible chant, "Nehru! Bulganin! Khrushchev!" The celebrities chatted. Nehru had heard that...
...jetmakers got ready to take off, Britain dropped out of the long-range jet race. In London the Ministry of Supply announced the canceling of the R.A. F. contract for the Vickers-Armstrongs Type 1,000 jet transport, the jet which British planemakers hoped would compete with Boeing and Douglas. The only jet transport now abuilding for commercial use is de Havilland's Comet Four, scheduled for delivery about the same time as the Boeing. But the Comet is slower, smaller and has a shorter range (no nonstop transatlantic flights...
...Shall Tear Down." To cure the economy, Lonardi proposed austerity and sacrifice, combined with economic freedom. "We shall tear down the absurd apparatus of interfering measures," he said. "We shall decisively encourage farm production . . . We shall busy ourselves with power production and transport . . . We shall cut wasteful expenditures...
Sportscar Enthusiasts. In Seoul, Brigadier General Carl F. Fritzsche issued a tart order to discourage the men in his command from using Army jeeps "to transport indigenous female personnel for recreational purposes...
BOEING JET TRANSPORT is showing its legs in the hot competition with Douglas for airline orders. The sweptwing, four-jet 707 flashed nonstop 3,038 miles from Seattle to Denver, Los Angeles and back to Seattle. Cruising speed: 550 m.p.h...