Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nacional harbored Picado as a captain; Picado's father (another Costa Rican ex-President) has long been Tacho's secretary; Tacho and Calderón Guardia admire each other. For warplanes the rebels started out with two T-6 trainers, one F47 fighter and one DC-3 transport; Tacho's air force included identical planes. A captured rebel said that he was billeted for pre-invasion training at the Nicaraguan Guard's Fort Coyotepe (another insurgent reported he had been trained at Chiquimula, in Guatemala). But Tacho expertly concealed the hard evidence needed to prove Nicaragua...
COMMERCIAL TURBOPROP engine will soon be out on the market for U.S. civilian planes by the Allison division of General Motors. It is the 3,750-h.p. T56 military turboprop now being used to power Lockheed's prototype C-130 troop transport...
...theory, air cargo is tailor-made for the U.S. economy. It permits companies to transport goods faster, thus cut down on expensive inventories and release valuable working capital for other uses. Warehousing and packaging costs can be cut; pilferage and damage are less of a problem, cutting insurance costs. By flying, a St. Louis shoe manufacturer has reduced inventories 50% for its store chain across the U.S., finds that savings are 3½ times the increased transportation costs. But most companies use air freight only for emergency orders or occasional shipments of highly perishable or specialized items (from ladybugs...
...high price of air transport makes it uneconomical for many companies to ship by plane. Current average rates are 20? a ton-mile, v. 1.4? a ton-mile for railroads, about 6? for trucks. The airlines cannot reduce the rates because their own costs are so high. American Airlines, Pan American and T.W.A. are all expanding air-cargo services; United Airlines jumped its business from 4,500,000 ton-miles in 1946 to 34 million, showed a 23% gain last year alone. Yet so far, not one company has reported a sizable profit from its cargo fleets...
...heart attack; in Arcadia, Calif. Trainer of hundreds of military pilots (among his pupils: Generals Nathan F. Twining, Hoyt Vandenberg, Curtis E. LeMay), four-star Uncle Joe won renown as one of World War II's great tactical airmen; devised "Operation Strangle," which severed Nazi rail transport to central Italy in preparation for the push on Rome...