Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oliver Lyttelton, who has labored long and with some success in coping with Mau Maus in Kenya and Communists in Malaya, and has been yearning to return to big business. His successor: Alan Lennox-Boyd, 49, a brilliant Oxonian who married into the wealthy Guinness family. As Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, he guided the restoration of road transport from Socialist nationalization to private ownership...
BOEING 707 jet transport is flying faster than expected, has already passed its planned 550-m.p.h. cruising speed...
...four-engined Cessna 620 executive transport, to give flying executives the big-plane comfort, safety and speed they expect at the economy prices they like to pay. With four 320-h.p. Continental engines, Cessna's 620 will carry nine passengers (plus pilot and copilot), cruise at 235 m.p.h. for 1,300 miles, and climb to an altitude of 30,000 ft. Estimated price: about $300,000 v. up to $400,000 for a converted World War II bomber...
BOEING'S 707 JET TRANSPORT came through its maiden test flight with flying colors. The 707, which can be used either as a transport or a tanker to refuel jet bombers, used only 2,100 ft. of runway to take off from Renton Airport near Seattle, cruised smoothly...
Short Hop. An eight-passenger, open-sided bus for transport in factories, shopping centers, airports, etc. is being sold by Autoette Inc. of Long Beach, Calif. The battery-powered bus averages 10 m.p.h., carries passengers back to back like an old-fashioned street car, comes equipped with a recharger that plugs into an ordinary electrical outlet. Price: $1,295 f.o.b. Long Beach...