Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Czechoslovakia. To a conference of Consumer Cooperatives in Prague, Communist Party Secretary Josef Tesla announced "great deficiencies" in coal production. Food Minister Ludmila Jankoucova broadcast an appeal for wheelbarrows and carts to ease a "transport crisis" on the Czech railroads. Both seemed anxious to lay the blame on Slansky & Co., who were even then headed for the gallows. As if in explanation, Radio Prague played recordings from the trial testimony of Ludvik Frejka, who was author of the Czechoslovakian two-and five-year plans...
Hungary. Deputy Premier Erno Gero told his Communist Central Committee last week that the country is doing just fine-except in coal, steel, power, transport, building, lumber and farming. There has been "a tremendous upsurge of our industry," but "here & there" are inconsistencies. Among them...
...honored disciples of the Buddha. Sariputta, dubbed by his master the disciple of "great intelligence," could expound doctrine, the story goes, with the same depth of meaning as the Buddha himself. Moggallana was the disciple of "potency," and Buddhists believe that he could become invisible, control ferocious beasts and transport his body through...
...order for 100 Thunderjets, its first jet fighter, but it was losing money on the Seabee (TIME, Sept. 17, 1945), a small private amphibian, and was $7,000,000 in the red. To make matters worse, American Airlines and Pan American Airways canceled orders for the four-engine Rainbow transport, the only transport orders Republic had. Then Peale took his first gamble; he decided to junk the Seabee program, stop trying for civilian orders, and stake Republic's future on Government contracts...
Some pessimists fear that Britain's swift but short-ranged jet Comets will capture air-transport supremacy from U.S. planes. Last week, Lockheed Aircraft Corp. tried to cheer up the mourners. It showed off the first model of its "turbo-compounded" Super Constellation, a piston-type plane which will not only carry about three times as many passengers (99) as the Comet I, but cover long hauls in less elapsed time. It is the first transport, said Lockheed, which will be able to guarantee nonstop flights from New York to Europe on a regular-fare, scheduled basis...