Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purchase price is returned to them . . . The airlines have not had the courage to put in this sensible system . . . instead they instituted the halfway measure of the reconfirmation system . . . The reconfirmation policy is a proven failure and should be abolished, yet the members of the Air Transport Association, representing the airlines, have consistently voted to retain it, and a minority group, which includes American Airlines, has not yet been able to have it abolished...
With Britain's air prestige at stake, the government is doing everything possible to make the new planes a success. In the House of Commons, Transport and Civil Aviation Minister John Boyd-Carpenter announced that government-owned British Overseas Airways would honor its order for twelve Comet II's and five Comet Ill's, added that BOAC might even up its order with three more Comets. The Royal Air Force will also lend a helping hand by taking the remaining five Comet I's off BOAC's hands, use them for research and development...
Lusty old Lazar M. Kaganovich, wartime commissar for transport, reputedly Stalin's brother-in-law, made toast after toast, in loud, rambling, unguarded speeches. Toasting "the great friendship of the Soviet peoples," he ran down the list of Soviet nationalities: "Tadzhiks, Uzbeks, Kazakhs...
Ahead of schedule and with a few minutes to kill, the Military Air Transport Service Constellation taxied slowly across Washington's National Airport one afternoon last week. Promptly at 4 o'clock, at the VIP side of the MATS terminal, the Connie's door opened and out stepped President Paul Eugène Magloire of Haiti. Vice President Richard Nixon stepped forward to wring the visiting chief of state's hand, while Mrs. Nixon presented Mrs. Magloire with red roses...
...balmy weather. Starting in 1927 with four noisy, German-made, trimotor planes, it made not a single peseta until 1946. After several reorganizations, the original airline went under, after serving the Loyalist cause during the Spanish civil war. Its successor was started in 1937 by Franco, who needed a transport service, and asked Germany's Lufthansa for help. But in World War II, when Britain and the U.S. warned Spain to cancel its agreement with Germany or lose its gasoline supplies, Franco nationalized the company, has since bought up the stock from private investors...