Word: transporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matter of Muscle. But even in its new guise, the pact retained many of its old weaknesses. Though it has to its credit the improvement of transport and communications lines between its Middle Eastern members, CENTO still has no unified military command; the real muscle guarding the Northern Tier is supplied by the bilateral U.S. treaties. And CENTO still has a soft spot in Iran, where Russian pressure alternates between threats and blandishments in an effort to force Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi into the neutralist path...
...space-probing Xi$ a flashing running start, or fire a 9,500-lb. payload into a 300-mile orbit, or even substitute as a first-stage launching vehicle for the man-carrying Mercury capsule. Even beyond its military capabilities, the Valkyrie could well become the answer for commercial-transport operators, who already visualize Mach 3 passenger service in the future...
Obviously convinced that there is no longer any electoral mileage in nationalization of industry, Labor's planners said almost in passing that they would renationalize steel and road transport (denationalized by the Tories since 1951), and let it go at that. But Gaitskell obviously hoped to make big campaign capital of Labor's promise of an immediate 20% boost in old-age pensions, and other welfare benefits, all to be paid for by "planned expansion" that would also get Britain back into "the race for higher productivity among industrial nations...
...FARE CUTS on Pacific and round-the-world flights will be proposed by Pan Am at meeting of rate-setting International Air Transport Association. Britain's government-owned airways also favor fare cuts, and sentiment is growing to establish economy fares, now confined to North Atlantic flights, on all international runs...
...Chevy when it goes into the showrooms Oct. 2. Factory list prices begin at $1,860 for the four-door model, drop to $1,810 for a two-door that will be introduced early next year. Among the optional gear: automatic transmission ($135), gasoline heater (under $70). Counting taxes, transport and extras, a Corvair four-door will deliver in Manhattan for about $2,400, about the same as British and German imports in the Corvair's size and horsepower range...