Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finished photograph in less than one minute after the signal is received. ¶ A two-stage Thor-Able rocket rose from Florida's Cape Canaveral, blazed its way out of the atmosphere and 6,000 miles downrange toward the South Atlantic. There a squadron of C-54 transport planes treaded expectantly in the lower air. Soon one of the crews saw the bright glow made by the nose cone's reentry into the atmosphere. A parachute opened, and the cone drifted down to the sea. When it hit the surface, a small balloon inflated automatically, keeping the cone...
...Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s, Sinclair went to jail for six months for contempt of court and the Senate. Doheny was acquitted of charges to defraud the Government and sold control of his Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co. holdings to Standard of Indiana. The ironic aftermath: instead of producing 130 million bbl. as the U.S. had predicted, Teapot Dome depleted itself after...
Biggest airline in the world is the U.S. Air Force's Military Air Transport Service. It is also one of the most controversial. In fiscal 1959 MATS will spend more than half of its $535 million budget to operate 533 transport planes, many of them flying cargo and passengers in direct competition with commercial U.S. carriers. Last week a MATS plan to add ten new Douglas DC-8 jets to its fleet at a cost of $66 million ran into a turbulent stream of industry, Administration and congressional opposition. Complained Pennsylvania's Democratic Congressman Daniel Flood...
Bulldog head set squarely on top of wattled neck and stooped shoulders, massive gold watch chain spread across massive middle, Sir Winston Churchill, 84, came haltingly down the ramp from Columbine III one evening last week at the Military Air Transport Service terminal in Washington. At the bottom of the steps President Eisenhower watched solicitously as he waited for his visitor. Then, with Churchill triumphant, Eisenhower stepped forward and thrust out his hand. "Hello, my friend," he said. "Glad to see you back again." Churchill, noticeably composing himself, replied: "I am indeed glad...
...brigadier general at 36-he was then the youngest general* in the nation's armed forces -slim, mustached West Pointer ('27) Larry Kuter saw duty in Britain, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II, was the first boss (1948-51) of the Military Air Transport Service...