Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confident Candidate. Last week, to the Távora camp's dismay, the press found out all about the under-the-table deal, reported it in screaming headlines to a scandalized nation. Capable Finance Minister Eugenio Gudin indignantly resigned, and the Minister of Transport and Public Works followed him out. Gudin's departure sent inflation-battered Brazil's cruzeiro sliding downward...
...least three airlines" over routes that parallel U.S. commercial airlines. If private international airlines had got 25% of the passenger volume and 50% of the mail, the commission estimated, the Government could have cut their subsidies by almost 88%. The commission also found that 85% of all Military Sea Transport Service shipment "could be carried in commercial ships...
Motive. In the board room of Transport House, headquarters of the Labor Party, the party's National Executive took up the case of Nye Bevan. Having thrown him out of Labor's parliamentary caucuses (TIME, March 28), the party chiefs were logically expected to finish the job by expelling Bevan from the party proper...
...inquire whether Nye Bevan might not be brought into line with party discipline. The right-wingers fought, but lost. With Attlee voting for Bevan, the National Executive decided, 14 to 13, to stay Nye Bevan's expulsion. "What can you do with a man who doodles while Transport House burns?" one Laborite complained of Attlee's switch. "Bevan's not out of the woods, by a long way," added a Gaitskellite...
Churchill & the Desk. When World War II came, Salesman Tom Watson Jr. enlisted and spent the next 5½ years as a transport pilot in the Army Air Forces. Right after Pearl Harbor he married Olive Field Cawley, then started shuttling between Russia and the Middle East on staff missions. In his B-24 he once flew escort for Britain's Prime Minister Churchill on a long flight from Moscow to Teheran. When he got out in 1946, he was a lieutenant colonel with 2,000 hours of flight time, the Air Medal, and senior pilot's wings...