Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...competing U.S. planemakers, De Havilland's decision means that the worst of the pressure was off in the race for the transport market. Boeing will put the first U.S. transport model, its four-jet 707, in the air next month, is pushing work ahead of schedule, and Douglas also has a plane past the blueprint stage. Said a De Havilland executive: "We know we're in a crisis. Even if the cause of the crashes were found tomorrow, we would have lost between four and six months . . . But until it is, we won't go back...
Schine spent that off year in the Army Transport Service. On his reapplication to Adams House he said he was a "lieutenant in the Army," but this was not so. He had the "simulated rank of lieutenant" which apparently meant that he had the same pay scale as a lieutenant, but he was only a civilian. His actual job, according to Colley, was that of an assistant purser on an Army transport...
...Morale is still high, but one battalion of Thai tribesmen has been kept in reserve since one of its companies panicked in the battle's opening phase. ¶Dienbienphu's most critical problem during the first two Red offensives: ammunition shortage. Red Chinese-directed flak forced French transport aircraft to come in so high that a sizable portion of parachuted equipment drifted into" the Red lines and helped supply the enemy. Fifteen to 20 French planes have been lost. Last week good flying weather enabled the French to conquer their supply crisis...
...have big holdings in Pennsylvania Greyhound and Pacific Greyhound. Greyhound would then be getting three-fourths of its revenues from bus lines that it wholly owns. But for Caesar, 75% is just a way stop. His goal is to make Greyhound sole owner of all its lines, a transport system covering all 48 states...
...Proprieties. In Sydney, Australia, the New South Wales transport department issued 7,000 cut-rate streetcar and bus tickets for children, on each ticket printed the warning: "Do not smoke in a nonsmoking compartment...