Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roger Ravel '56, treasurer of the New England Region of the National Student Association, last night predicted that scores of University students would be affected by the ruling of the International Air Transport Association...
...earlier, five transport planes sent by Juan Peron had cleared the Argentine embassy of its 120 refugees, among them Carlos Manuel Pellecer, who under Arbenz had captured the land-reform program for the Communists, and Victor Manuel Gutierrez, who had captured labor. Together with Jose Manuel Fortuny, Arbenz' own mentor in Marxism, who went to Mexico in the Arbenz plane, the Communists are expected to meet soon in Prague, where explanations presumably will be in order...
...Viet Minh Communists delayed several times-once, they said, because rain had hampered their transport. Then, some hours after last week's deadline for exchanging prisoners was past, they handed over their highest-ranking captive: Brigadier General Christian de Castries, 52, the dauntless but defeated commander of Dienbienphu, who had spent four months in Red hands. He seemed years older, much thinner, and his hair was greyer. He refused a stretcher. He admitted that he was not in good shape, but said he was a hard man, that he would be all right after a glass of wine...
TURBOPROP SUPER CONNIE, world's fastest propeller transport, was flight-tested by Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Built for the U.S. Navy, the new R7V-2 is equipped with four 5,500-h.p. Pratt & Whitney T-34 turboprop engines, has a payload of 16 tons, a top cruising speed of 440 m.p.h...
...TRANSPORT, which Douglas Aircraft Co. has spent three years and nearly $3,000,000 designing, is ready to be built. But Douglas wants a Government order to help foot the bill. The DC-8 is expected to match Boeing's 707 (TIME, July 19) by carrying up to 130 passengers, cruising at 550 m.p.h., flying the Atlantic Ocean nonstop against winter headwinds...