Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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East Germany, said its boss, Communist Party Secretary Walter Ulbricht, suffers because it has "failed to assimilate progressive Soviet science and technology." There are shortages of steel, coal, power, labor and transport, he told the Communist Party Central Committee, because "some people are still strongly influenced by religion, and believe that Socialism will come from Heaven. This is erroneous." From the sovietized Bergmann-Borsig engineering works in East Berlin, Communist inspectors reported: "Working according to schedule is an extremely rare event . . . An average of ten substandard cylinder heads has been made for every one that was up to standard...
...transport was nine hours out of Fairbanks, Alaska, on Thanksgiving night when Captain Albert J. Fenton raised Tacoma's McChord Field. What was the weather? The answer crackled back: visibility three-quarters of a mile, ceiling zero. Pilot Fenton asked to be talked in on ground controlled approach...
...naval infantry by tradition; Marines still call a dugout's dirt floor a "deck," speak, even in deserts and mountains, of "coming aboard" and "breaking out" flags. But in the last analysis it is subject to a President's call for service anywhere, by any available transport. In 1952 the Marine Corps once more has foot soldiers enough-and the planes, tanks and artillery to support them-to think of itself without doubt or qualification as the nation's Sunday punch...
Some 18 miles east of Seoul, the C-119 crashed against a 2,000-ft. peak. There were no survivors; the Air Force called it the "worst transport disaster" of the Korean war.* In the litter of mangled flesh and metal, search parties found some of the presents-satin slippers, a woman's wristwatch, a pair of child's pink pajamas...
...which equals the payroll of the entire mining industry in the province. The U.S. will make some $2,500,000 worth of local purchases in the coming year, plus another $500,000 worth of PX supplies. Such incidentals as a $100,000 charter fee for a motor vessel to transport island supplies, almost $87,000 rental paid by off-base servicemen and $16,000 tuition to local schools attended by children of military personnel, help to give the economy a powerful shot...