Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are half a million Jews in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and no one knows whether or when they will be caught up in the flare of violence in North Africa. Even before last week's rioting, 80,000 North African Jews had applied for free transportation to Israel, but last week the Jewish Agency's Immigration Committee set the country's "absorptive capacity" for this year at 45,000, and doubted that it could scrape together enough money to transport even that many. Israel cannot absorb large numbers of newcomers without grave risk to its burdened...
Then came World War II, and Carmi enlisted in a British transport unit. In North Africa, his outfit was attached to Montgomery's Eighth Army. One day at El Alamein, Carmi was collecting debris left by Rommel's retreat when he came across a bulky, grey object. It proved to be a piano, encased in a rock-hard coating of plaster, its innards too sand-clogged to sound...
...surprised to read in TIME, July 18 that the U.S. Air Force paid $135,000 of the taxpayers' money to transport the Moral Re-Armament party to the Far East. Missionaries of all faiths have worked in the Far East for many years. I wonder if their transportation has been furnished by the Government in whole or in part...
...make jet planes. Since the U.S. economic aid program is designed to provide Yugoslavia with a well-balanced and well-timed economic expansion, the U.S. politely refused Tito's request. It also continued to shower down on Tito F-84 jet fighters, T-33 jet trainers, reconnaissance and transport planes, guns, tanks, jeeps and patrol vessels, to the tune of at least half a billion dollars. The U.S. also chipped in another half-billion dollars for Yugoslavia's economic needs, and made it possible for Tito to borrow $113 million from international banks...
...Philadelphia, newsmen and Pentagon brass watched the YC-123E "Panto-base" plane, a new amphibious version of the Air Force's land-based Chase C-123 transport, go through its paces on the Delaware River. Pilot Bernie Hughes made a normal take-off from nearby Mustin Naval Air Station, then pulled up the wheels, lowered a pair of 13-ft. skis from the plane's belly and made several demonstration landings and take-offs on the water. Unlike regular amphibians, the two-engined YC-123E loses a minimum of speed and range with its new landing gear...