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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moral Re-Armament, traditionally no friend of military enterprises such as the U.S. Air Force, will pay for its long ride after a fashion. The Air Force normally charges two rates for transport flights -one for governmental agencies, another for nongovernmental agencies. Moral Re-Armament will pay only the Government rate. Its check will amount to about $97,000, and U.S. taxpayers will pay the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Half-Price Loading | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...Italy's badly needed tax-reform bill. Segni balanced Andreotti by appointing as Minister of Agriculture 35-year-old Emilio Colombo, a firm believer in land reform and one of the party's rising young stars. He had something for the left wing, too: the Ministry of Transport, given to Armando Angelini, an ally of Italian President Giovanni Gronchi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: New Man on the Job | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...petition, and the militants climbed in their cars and descended on Pretoria, the administrative capital, from all over South Africa. Led by a lady drummer, the women marched on the government offices, many of them singing Die Stem, the official national anthem. They were met by the Minister of Transport, deputizing for Strydom, but all that he could tell them was: "There can be no compromise when the life [of the white man] is at stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Protest & Danger | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...Steamships, a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific transport empire bossed by Norris Roy Crump, 50, of Montreal, is counting on the new Empress to spearhead a comeback in the Atlantic passenger trade. Before World War II, C.P. was one of the world's biggest shipping firms, with fleets of liners and freighters in both the Atlantic and Pacific. Ten C.P. ships, including an earlier Empress of Britain, were lost in war service. By late 1952, when it was painfully apparent that costs were not going down, a $30 million order was placed for the new Empress of Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Economical Empress | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

Harold L Pearson, 52, became president of Air Transport Association, the organization of U.S. scheduled airlines. Kansas-born "Pete" Pearson spent 22 years in chain-store merchandising at J. C. Penney and Sears, Roebuck, then joined Montgomery Ward, where he was named Ward controller in 1934. Pearson went on to become vice president, treasurer, and Avery's close confidant. In 1945, like dozens of other Ward executives, Pearson "escaped," as he put it. Later, Pearson went to Washington, became Deputy Under Secretary of the Army in 1952, Assistant Director of the Budget Bureau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Jul. 4, 1955 | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

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