Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX. While the wreckage of a twin-engined transport sizzles in mid-Sahara, Director Robert Aldrich coolly studies a crew of survivors headed by James Stewart in their attempt to escape on a wing and a prayer...
...cocky young lieutenant off his feet and sent him to Marrakech for flight training. He won his wings on Sept. 15, 1954-just four months after the French defeat in Indo-China. Ky came back to South Viet Nam with a French wife and the command of a transport squadron. By the time he was 25, the hard-boiled "hot rock" pilot was in charge of Saigon's sprawling Tan Son Nhut air force base. From there, Ky jumped to his first look at the U.S. -six months at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Field...
Craven Servility. For a change, the Authority and the Transport Workers Union found themselves on the same side of an argument. They sought dis missal of Weinstein's suit on the ground that as a "private citizen without special or peculiar interest," he lacked "standing"; they claimed that the law was "unworkable" and the strike could not have been settled without granting the workers a raise...
...when Boston was unable to ship government wheat to India because the two city's grain elevators, both leased by railroad companies, had been closed down. The advantage of railroad proximity to piers (in Boston cargo can be loaded directly onto railway cars) has become less valuable since truck transport now accounts for 80 per cent of the traffic...
...planemakers has so far profited from building jets for commercial use. Boeing has not won a major military contract since 1958, suffered major setbacks by not capturing either the TFX or C-5A award. The company, however, is battling Lockheed for the Government contract to build a supersonic transport; a win would make up for a lot of lost business...