Word: transportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indispensable factor in this world-wide distribution of TIME has been the postwar development of world air transport, which puts the world's major cities within less than 40 flying hours of one of TIME's U.S. and overseas printing plants. In Canada, Latin America and most of Europe and the Near East the mechanics of getting TIME to its readers on schedule are not greatly different than in the U.S. Nor is it too difficult in such far away countries as Australia and New Zealand. Indonesia, however, and India are another matter...
Miracle Man Kaiser had had a little more trouble selling that scheme. The Army & Navy were against it. They needed scarce materials and technicians for their standard combat and transport craft. Planemaker Grover Loening told committeemen how, as a representative of WPB, he looked over Kaiser's plan and reached the same conclusion as the military men. WPB's aviation experts figured Henry Kaiser didn't know an airplane from a Sherman tank and that his promise to get the first model into the air within 20 months only proved...
...poor, had no prospects of jobs or any training. They were the 1947 version of the Okies who had fled from the Southwest's Dust Bowl. Instead of riding the highways, the Puerto Ricans rode the skies. Most of them arrived in the bucket seats of converted Army transport planes, operated by charter airlines at bargain rates. By last week, the migration from their crowded, poverty-stricken land to the U.S. was at flood tide...
Austria's four Communist deputies (Ernst Fischer, Johann Koplenig, Franz Honner, Viktor Elser) wrote to Moscow to ask whether something could not be done about the prisoners. Last week Generalissimo Stalin graciously replied: "The Soviet Government has decided to speed up the release and transport of Austrian prisoners of war . . . in such a way as to grant the return of all Austrians before the end of the year. . . ." As an afterthought, he added: "The Austrian Government will be informed of [this]. . . ." Vienna's Communist Volksstimme jubilantly pointed the moral: "Today not only Austrian women but the entire Austrian...
...Manhattan, 128 white-uniformed Venezuelan naval cadets marched from the transport Cabana to the statue of Bolívar in Central Park. They heard Dr. Pedro de Alba, Mexican Ambassador to Chile and former assistant director of the Pan American Union, declare that Bolívar's spirit now lives in the 55-nation Assembly of the United Nations. It was July 24, the 164th birthday of the man for whom a country and a dozen towns* have been named...