Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will probably not become independent Nigeria's first Prime Minister. Most likely to be chosen by the federal House of Representatives when it convenes next month is a leader from the more populous but less advanced Northern Region, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, currently federal Minister of Transport. Nigeria's north is Moslem, and so conservatively Moslem that its devout regard Egyptians, Turks and Pakistanis as irreverent backsliders and only Saudi Arabians as sufficiently pure in faith...
...Trojan Horse, a tragedy based on the Fourth Book of Homer's Odyssey, tells how the Trojan people, cowed by fear, transport the Trojan Horse into their city, thus ensuring their own destruction. More than mere tragedy, it is an ironic and powerful parable, with a profound significance for Americans, because the attitudes that cause the Trojans to accept the horse parallel certain attitudes existing today in America...
Playing Nasser to the Farouk of discredited Teamster President Dave Beck (Hoffa will almost certainly take over the teamster reins at the union's Miami Beach convention next month), Jimmy Hoffa allowed that he is considering a plan to combine all the nation's transport unions (aviation, trucking, shipping, railroading) into one council. Said he: "You can't have a one-city strike any more, or a strike in just one kind of transportation. You have to strike them...
...long haul they argue that at least a 10% increase is necessary to preserve the air fleet which the nation's security and economic well-being demands. The alternatives, say the airmen, are two: either the weakest airlines will fold and the middling ones merge, concentrating the air-transport industry, like Detroit's automakers, into a few giant companies, or U.S. airlines will be forced once again to come begging for big subsidies such as those supporting the U.S. shipping industry...
...would give U.S. feeder airlines a Government guarantee on any loan from private sources; the other, in the House, would allow airline operators, like homeowners, to reinvest proceeds from the sale of old planes in new equipment without paying a capital-gains tax. Without such help, warned the Air Transport Association's President Stuart G. Tipton, one of the most promising of all U.S. industries will stay "stuck on dead center." Shoppers & Salesmen. The irony is that few industries can match the feeder lines' growth. Flying every kind of short-haul traveler from weekend shoppers to city-hopping...