Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Earl D. Johnson, 48, holdover Under Secretary of the Army, will retire to become head of the Air Transport Association of America, industry association of the scheduled airlines...
Since 1911, the Collier Trophy has been given yearly, by a committee of U.S. aviation experts, to the man responsible for "the greatest achievement in aviation in America." Past committees have honored such sky milestones as the practical parachute, the blind-landing system, the twin-engine commercial transport, the air offensive against Germany, the first supersonic flight.* Last week the trophy went to Leonard Sinclair Hobbs, United Aircraft Corp.'s vice president for engineering. His achievement: development and production of the J-57, the world's most powerful production jet engine...
...governor; in strode a British policeman with a warrant for the King's arrest. Forthwith, His Highness got orders to clear out of his native Uganda and to stay out for the rest of his life. He was hustled to Entebbe airport, bundled aboard a waiting R.A.F. transport plane and flown directly to London. No one bothered to tell his wife and four-year-old child...
...Mexican cowboy films and one of Latin America's favorite cinemactors, fourth husband (since last year) of Mexico's tempestuous Movie Queen Maria Felix; of a liver ailment; in Hollywood. As Mexicans openly mourned Film Idol Negrete's death, his widow declared "unsuitable" a two-engined transport plane sent by Mexico's President Ruiz Cortines to bring his body home from Los Angeles, instead chartered a four-engined American Airlines DC-6, planned an elaborate public funeral in Mexico City...
...agricultural tools, fishing boats, paper and other daily necessities of the people." Red China also agreed to-cancel North Korea's war debts incurred up to next Jan. 1 (apparently a way of saying that North Koreans must pay occupation costs after that) and to "facilitate civil air transport between the Soviet Union and Korea" by letting a Soviet-Korean airline cross her territory. On hand in Peking for the signing of this agreement, besides Mao Tse-tung and North Korea's Premier Kim II Sung, was a Russian named V. V. Vaskov. V. V. Vaskov, the communiqu...