Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, having praised his party's performance, Malenkov proceeded to berate it. The detailed shortcomings: "Great waste and unproductive expenditure . . . inefficient and excessively long railway transportation . . . road transport still badly organized . . . laxness in raising labor productivity ... an acute housing shortage everywhere . . . defective goods." He warned the delegates that "nepotism had been rife" in the party. Even the writers and artists, a privileged caste, caught it: "Not enough good films, not enough satire...
...Barling. In 1926 he went to Peru, and flew crop-dusting planes, later became vice president and general manager of Peruvian Airways and from 1929-42 was operations manager of Panagra. Made a brigadier general in World War II, he bossed the training and domestic operations of the Air Transport Command, later managed operations for American Overseas Airlines until it merged with Pan Am in 1950. This week Airman Harris, a cautious man with airplanes, was just as cautious about his new job. Said he: "First I have to find out what the airline's all about...
...London recently, a tousled, youngish-looking man stepped into the empty vastness of a 50-passenger R.A.F. Hastings transport specially reserved for him. At Singapore, while the plane lay all night in the blaze of 50 searchlights, troops watched over the tousled man as he slept. A few days later, his plane journey over, the man boarded a Royal Navy frigate at an obscure port in northwest Australia and headed for a rendezvous 50 miles away...
Next day, the Transport Workers' testy Arthur Deakin rose to make his speech as "fraternal delegate." Flushed with rage, Deakin cast all pretense at fraternity to the winds. "Organization was set up," he shouted, "to secure the Bevanites their place on the national executive. Very well, then, organization will be set up to counter them." This was equivalent to an open declaration of war on Bevan from the trade unions. "Tell him to sit down," shouted somebody, "he's losing us the next election...
...early 1953, BOAC hopes to have the fleet flying on a London-Tokyo route as well as to South Africa, Colombo and Singapore. De Havilland hopes to have all the bugs of jet operation eliminated-and perhaps be flying its Comet III-before the U.S. gets a commercial jet transport into...