Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...implication that his promise to go to Korea was only a campaign trick was unprintable, but his telegraphed answer was a calm statement that he would try to make arrangements quickly to have a personal representative meet with the Director of the Budget. Ike added: "Any suitable transport plane that one of the services could make available will be satisfactory for my planned trip to Korea...
...SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE: 1) Ex-Undersecretary of Air John McCone of Los Angeles; 2) President C. R. Smith of American Airlines, wartime operating head of the Air Transport Command and Ike-minded Texas Democrat...
Billy was national head of three trade unions: the wharf laborers, the transport workers and the seamen. He talked like a radical, but by 1910 he was already demanding that Australia should have its own army & navy, and making speeches about the menace of Japan. That year, the Labor Party formed its first majority government, a cabinet consisting of two miners, a wharf lumper, a building worker, a hatter, a compositor, an engine driver and, of course, Billy Hughes. The cabinet split over World War I, and Hughes formed a national coalition government, pledged to aid Britain "to the last...
Young Henry, who soon became president of the company, lined up good sources of raw materials and cheap water transport to haul them. By cutting costs (and prices) below competitors, and often supplying his big customers with financial aid, Crown became top dog in Chicago's material supply business. Today his Materials Service Corp. is still the keystone of his empire, with a 1951 gross of $45 million...
...years just before World War II, Lulu took a transport-pilot's license, went to work in the front office of Lufthansa, and joined the Luftwaffe reserve as a pilot. He found his progress blocked at every turn by the Nazis, who feared, he says, to let him become prominent lest he revive royalist feeling in the Reich...