Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Transport Association of America...
...have none); U.S. superiority in numbers of long-range jet medium bombers (the B-47, of which more than1,000 have been produced); U.S. superiority-or at least approximate equality-in numbers of heavy jet medium bombers (the B-52 type); U.S. superiority in modern troop carriers and military transport and cargo craft. But comfortable comparisons of current situations are not enough. For Soviet air power has made great strides over the whole course of the last decade, possibly -though by no means certainly-greater than...
...Harm. At Transport House, Labor Party headquarters in London's Smith Square, only one top leader put in an appearance to take in firsthand a night long story of setbacks. Worn and haggard from a campaign that brought him back with 2,000 fewer votes in his own constituency of Walthamstow West, Labor's Clement Attlee at 72 was a sad figure, his face bereft of its usual suggestion of tart strength, his hands poked disconsolately into the pockets of his raincoat. His own career as party leader was now in jeopardy. This was the first time since...
...that the White Sands supply of concentrated peroxide threatened to run out. This touchy explosive liquid, used to drive the Viking's fuel pump, was obtainable only in Buffalo, and to get a new supply would take two weeks because it could be shipped only by careful rail transport. When the discouraging news reached the Martin plant, two designers, Bill Webb and Jack Early, hopped into a station wagon, picked up a drum of per oxide at Buffalo, and drove the fearful stuff to New Mexico with carefree speed...
...Navy, Air Force and Air Transport Association (commercial airlines) want a newer system called Tactical Air Control (Tacan). which was developed by the Navy. As a result of the fight, the airlines have been scared off from spending sizable sums on what might turn out to be the losing system...