Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife insists on rearranging the furniture, she may do so despite any protests by the commission, Congress or the public. * Two of Mamie's sisters, Eleanor and Eda May, died while in their teens; the third, Mrs. Frances ("Mike") Moore, is the wife of an air transport executive in Washington...
Realizing that Gander's grim aspect is the worst kind of advertising for Canada's tourist trade, the Department of Transport recently flew a group of government officials into Gander to see what could be done about improving the place. Last week some of the experts' proposed changes began to take shape. A new catering firm was signed up to improve the dining service. Architects went to work on plans to brighten the interior of the hangar waiting room, to tear down the sheep runs and replace them with paved walks. The raucous confusion of airline announcements...
...while, Onassis' shipping company ran in the red. But by 1936 he was making enough money to order a 15,000-ton tanker built for him in Sweden, thus became, he claims, the first Greek shipowner to get into oil transport. During the war, with most of his ships impounded in Sweden, he ran the rest of them for the Allies. At war's end, when Bethlehem Steel planned to close its Sparrows Point, Md. shipyard, Onassis came through with the first postwar order for tankers in the U.S., and persuaded the company to keep its shipyard going...
...Royal Canadian Air Force C-5 transport lifted off Ottawa's snowy Rockcliffe Airport one morning this week, and headed south for Rio de Janeiro. Aboard the plane was C. D. Howe, Canada's go-getting Minister of Trade & Commerce, leading a group of government and business leaders on a five-week good-will tour of Latin America. The mission is the first of its kind Canada has sent to Latin America since 1946. Its announced purpose: "To present a picture of Canada's industrial growth and commercial aspirations so that business and government in the nine...
...Italian Novelist Alberto (Woman of Rome) Moravia. Throughout the hearings the committee showed a disturbing fuzziness over what it meant by "objectionable matter." Since the committee itself could not decide, it seemed dangerous to recommend that existing federal laws be strengthened making it an offense for private carriers to transport "lewd, obscene or lascivious" books and magazines in interstate commerce. This could mean that a motorist might be arrested for carrying a book by Steinbeck. However, publishers and readers alike could agree with the committee's suggestion that the publishing industry try to clean out the dirty corners...