Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Developed by Engineer Leonard S. ("Luke") Hobbs. now United Aircraft's vice chairman, the J57 has been in production since 1953, powers Boeing's eight-engine B-52 heavy bomber and four-engine KC-135 jet tanker-transport, Convair's supersonic F102 interceptor and five other military planes. Soon the even bigger J75 will go into two more important planes, Convair's supersonic F106 interceptor and Republic's F-105 fighter-bomber. To add to its horsepower riches, Pratt & Whitney has important military contracts for a smaller J52 jet engine and a T57 turboprop...
TOKYO, Saturday, March 23--Seventy planes and a dozen ships were thrown into the search today for a U.S. military transport plane that vanished over the choppy Pacific with 67 Americans aboard...
...since got out of it. Today the government mines all of Italy's coal and 80% of her iron ore; it produces more than three-quarters of the nation's pig iron and half its steel, enjoys a monopoly or near monopoly of rail, sea and air transport, and competes with private industry in the manufacture of scores of products ranging from chocolates to Alfa Romeo cars...
Most of these diverse interests are managed for the government by enti, autonomous administrations which today number more than 1,000. (Exactly how many more nobody knows.) Perhaps 200 of these corporations, e.g., the Imperial African Transport Society and the ente in charge of Albanian banks, have long since outlived their functions and represent a net loss to the Italian taxpayers. But even more of a menace to Italy's economic health are such aggressive, purposeful enti as E.N.I., the burgeoning oil and gas corporation which, under the leadership of hard-driving Enrico Mattei (TIME...
From Aeronautical Wizard Igor Sikorsky came a wry glance into yesteryear and a full-faced peek into the future. Said he, at a Washington banquet: "The first instrument of transport was developed when man placed a load on his woman's back. Then came the pack mule. Now the day is at hand when a crane helicopter will be able to pick up a ready-made house, deliver it to its site while the owners are inside having dinner...