Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Douglas and Lockheed orders meant that U.S. airlines have decided to hold off on jet transports, probably until 1960. It will take at least five, possibly seven, years for them to amortize their costly new fleets of piston-engined craft, some of which will not even be delivered until 1957. Furthermore, there is little likelihood that a U.S. jet transport will be on the market for some time to come. In Washington last week, Air Force Assistant Secretary Roger Lewis told Boeing Airplane Co., which had hoped to turn out a commercial version of its giant KC-135 jet tanker...
Died. Arthur ("Uncle Arthur") Deakin, 64, Socialist head of the Transport and General Workers' Union, Britain's largest labor union (1,300,000 members), onetime chairman of Britain's Trades Union Congress and one of the Labor Party's chief anti-Bevanites; after collapsing while addressing a May Day rally; in Leicester, England. Anti-Communist Deakin played a leading part last week in averting a threatened strike of 65,000 British railworkers...
...Sudden Relaxation. Into that anxious atmosphere one day this week flew the silver, white and blue U.S. transport carrying Radford and Robertson. Their plane touched down at Taipei airport at precisely the scheduled hour of 11 a.m.. thereby satisfying Admiral Radford's passion for on-the-second arrivals. It was a sweet and winy morning, and Chinese and American greeters basked in the sunshine as the big plane landed. A Nationalist military band and a guard of honor stood by to salute the visitors. Heading the welcomers was Nationalist Foreign Minister Yeh, whose mood was not nearly...
While a U.S. Army band tootled Hearts of Stone, 787 Canadian infantrymen trudged down the gangplank of a U.S. Navy transport in Seattle harbor one day last week. They were officers and men of the 2nd Battalion, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, heading home after a year of exacting but unspectacular service along the Korean truce line...
...companies such as General Motors, Continental Oil, Dow Chemical and Coca-Cola added the new planes to their transport fleets. More important, hundreds of small and medium-sized businessmen discovered that they could afford to fly. With four people in a plane, seat costs dropped as low as 5? per mile (v. 5? for scheduled airliners). The added savings in time and energy getting to remote spots was incalculable. Lumbermen bought planes to appraise mountain tracts more easily; ranchers used them for aerial roundups; construction men, uranium hunters, salesmen, all took...