Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military transport planes winged over the Pacific on an average of one every 45 minutes; an Arctic flight or an Atlantic crossing took place every hour and 15 minutes. One Alaska-based squadron chalked up 700 North Pole crossings over a five-year period...
...needed a few more hits in the MIG's cockpit and wing roots before the Red jet finally crashed and exploded. The fight had lasted 15 minutes, an unusually long time for jets. A few days later, "Dad" Low had his bags packed and was waiting for a transport to Tokyo when some 40 MIGs came howling down toward the front lines, as if feinting at Seoul. Low sweated that one out on the ground. But he said: "I sure would like to have hacked down just one more. Nine is such an uneven number...
...frustrate Red efforts to build up their reserves during the lull, the U.S. Fifth Air Force sent hundreds of Thunder-jets, Shooting Stars and Mustangs ranging over Communist camping grounds in western Korea. Night-raiding B-26 and B-29 bombers struck at Communist supply bases and transport columns rolling southward towards the front. The Reds retaliated with a propaganda attack: a Communist plane dropped leaflets on U.S. lines showing American civilians relaxing in Caribbean sunshine. Front-line loudspeakers played Christmas carols. Through the imperfect loudspeaker transmission, some listeners thought they heard the phrase, in imperfect English: "We want...
...Chairman Warren Lee Pierson, 56, was elected chairman of the U.S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce, American industry's chief policymaking body on foreign-trade matters. Long a figure in international trade, Pierson, a Harvard-trained lawyer, is a past president of the International Air Transport Association, served on the Tripartite Commission unscrambling German debts (TIME, Aug. 18), and was president of the Export-Import Bank for ten years. He is a firm believer in "two-way trade, not oneway...
...perennial hopefuls who clustered around the President's palace in the hope that, by chance or default, they might be tapped to form a government. He was a second-echelon minister-Economic Affairs-in the Queuille cabinet; in four successive cabinets he was Minister of Public Works, Transport and Tourism...