Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commissioner Anslinger documented his report with details supplied by the bureau network of undercover agents abroad. He named Red China's new dope factories and brands (Camel, Race Horse, Red Lion, etc.). He outlined the smuggling system, from camelback to air transport...
...face and a bigger contract in his pocket. Boeing had won the Air Force competition for jet tankers over both Douglas and Lockheed. Prize: a $460 million contract for a "substantial" number (more than 200) of KC-135s, the modified version of Boeing's 707 prototype jet transport (TIME, March 8, 1954). For Lockheed, there was a consolation prize consisting of a development contract for an "advanced" type of tanker...
LOCKHEED CONSTELLATION, in production since 1943, through eight versions, has now passed $1 billion in sales, the first transport plane in history to top the mark. So far, about 650 of the shark-bodied, triple-finned planes have been built or ordered by the military services and 26 airlines. Biggest commercial customer: T.W.A., which will have 101 Connies flying when it gets delivery of its latest $46 million order for 20 Super Constellations...
First they formed Republic Air Coach System to handle the financial end, then bought up four small nonscheduled lines with valid CAB letters of registration-Twentieth Century Air Lines. Trans National Airlines, Trans American Airways, Hemisphere Air Transport-to supply planes and pilots...
...North American's four Los Angeles co-owners-Stanley Weiss, 43, James Fischgrund, 39, Ross R. Hart, 40, and Jack B. Lewin, 42. Separately and together, they have been fighting CAB for years. Returning from the war, Fischgrund, a Navy lieutenant commander, and Weiss, an ex-Air Corps transport pilot, bought two war-surplus Douglas C-47 transports for $15,000 down, and formed Standard Airlines. Hart and Lewin. two Douglas Aircraft employees, formed their own Viking Airlines with the money raised from 29 coworkers. The two lines pioneered cut-rate air-coach flights. By 1948 they...