Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hamburg (pop. 1,600,000), a strike of 13,000 transport and utilities workers left West Germany's largest city without gas, water, buses and streetcars for nine days. In Bavaria, 130,000 metal workers downed tools. Nine hundred thousand Ruhr metal workers demanded a 10-pfennig (2.5?) hourly increase...
...slow, multi-purpose military transport plane is obsolete. So declared Lieut. General Joseph Smith, U.S.A.F., boss of the Military Air Transport Service, at a meeting of aeronautical engineers in Seattle. Two different aircraft are needed: 1) a 550-m.p.h. jet transport (range, 3,500 miles; payload, 15 tons), to lift key personnel and vital supplies; 2) a slower, turboprop cargo plane with a 25-ton payload and a range of 3,500 miles. Boeing's experimental 707 jetliner (TIME, March 8) roughly satisfies the first requirement; a suitable U.S. turboprop transport has yet to be put into mass production...
...Ankara airport landed a Russian transport plane, ostensibly out of fuel. Out popped 21 gaily clad Mecca-bound pilgrims, Communists all, yet Moslems to a man. Two of them, their passports showed, were Red army officers. While the prospective hadjis were still scattering affable salaam aleikums around the airport, Russian-embassy personnel arrived. Their eagerness was understandable : Russia is trying hard to woo not only its own Moslem population of about 30 million (which has often been rebellious and subject to purges) but the 310 million Moslems whose lands stretch in a strategic arc from Casablanca to the Sulu...
...ready to flight-test its big (20-ton capacity), powerful (15,000 h.p.) turboprop military-cargo plane, the YC-130, next week. Designed as a workhorse, the YC-130 can carry a tank, take off from short, front-line airstrips, fly faster and higher than any other U.S. military transport. Lockheed already has Air Force orders for 29 YC-lSOs, and expects to deliver the first production model within a year...
...twin-engined Cessna 310, which is a smaller, five-place transport that can cruise at 205 m.p.h. for 875-mile hops. Cessna already has orders for 130 at $49,950 each, is booked into July...