Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veteran airman, Harold Harris, 58, was Chief of Staff for the Army's Air Transport Command in World War II, Pan American's chief of Atlantic operations when Northwest's board of directors hired him to take over 14 months ago. Under President Croil Hunter, who moved upstairs to board chairman, Northwest had been plagued by maintenance and pilot troubles, high operating costs and a shortage of equipment. Harris leased four DC-6Bs, ordered six Lockheed Super Constellations, and worked out long-range plans for modernization and expansion, including a new heavy-maintenance base at Minneapolis...
...walled-off section of Boeing's airplane factory near Seattle last week, General Curtis LeMay, boss of the U.S. Strategic Air Command, scrambled under scaffolding to inspect the giant, four-jet 707, the first jet transport built in the U.S. Said LeMay: "Quite an airplane. A versatile baby that really ought to make the British look...
General LeMay was thinking of Boeing's swept-wing 707 as a rival for Britain's Comet jetliners as well as a flying tanker-transport to refuel his jet bombers in midair. To Boeing, which has built more than 600 of LeMay's six-jet B-47 bombers and is now turning out the eight-jet B-52, the big plane was also a lot more than just an aerial nursemaid. Boeing President William M. Allen thinks his new 707 has an even greater future as the first U.S. commercial jet transport, and has gambled $20 million...
...Berlin Conference approached its appointed end in a fading thunder of oratory. As the transport planes stood by, and the delegations gathered up their thickets of papers, Western ministers could go home with a professional sense of achievement that they had scored more than they had been scored upon. But the net of Berlin was a clearer-eyed view of a chasm, and who could raise a cheer over that...
...Even if space flight is mastered, the logistics of earth-moon transport are not encouraging. According to the calculations of one optimistic authority, Dr. Wernher von Braun, more than 2,000 Ibs. of fuel must be burned to land each pound of cargo on the moon. If half the fuel is hydrazine, at $2.50 a lb., the fuel cost alone of transporting a 10-ton machine to the moon would be more than $50 million. The space vehicles themselves would add even more to the cost...