Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unions, usually pledged in advance. At first, Bevan seemed headed for success. Britain resounded with shrill voices echoing Bevan's "No guns for the Hun." The National Union of Railwaymen (323,000 members) announced their support. Many small unions chimed in. But Britain's biggest union (the Transport and General Workers) and its fourth biggest (the General and Municipal Workers) pledged themselves to Gaitskell. Last. week the miners, Nye's own union (and Britain's second biggest with 683,000 members) met to choose their candidate...
...craft: Boeing Airplane Co.'s Model 707, the first jet-powered transport plane ever built...
...jetliner will probably not be seen first as a civilian transport, but as a military plane, part of General Curtis Le-May's Strategic Air Command. Though the Air Force has not yet placed a firm order, the 707 has been approved by the Air Policy Council and seems certain to be in the buying program as a flying tanker to refuel swept-wing jet bombers, thus give the Strategic Air Command more mobility and range. SAC's B-47 bombers now get refueled in the air on their 10,000-mile missions from prop-driven...
...Question. With a model already built, Boeing has won itself a long head start on the rest of the industry in the jet transport race. The credit goes to Boeing's brilliant corps of engineers and to Bill Allen, the dry, deceptively plain lawyer who became Boeing's president (and custodian of the cactus) in 1945. Allen is the man who gave the final go-ahead for Boeing to spend $20 million on the 707, gambling that he could sell it to the Air Force and the airlines. With Air Force orders in the offing, Bill Allen...
...this," says a Boeing engineer locking his hands, "instead of apart like this," sweeping them to the side. Bill Allen also knew how to make a tough decision. At one of his first full staff meetings, Allen calmly decided to put the demoralized company to work on a new transport plane...