Word: transporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average of 30 flights a week, carries such diverse cargo as day-old chicks, bull calves, building material, engine parts, Australian beer, food, nuns, priests and mission helpers. Now and then he flies armed patrols, native cops or doctors to trouble spots, and he is always available to transport the sick or injured to the nearest hospital. Furthermore, says he, by plane "I am able to make many of my confirmation trips with less effort than a bishop in the U.S. or England...
Eleven hours out of Baltimore's Friendship International Airport, 4½ hours after a refueling touchdown in Iceland, the gleaming Boeing 707 jet transport, emblazoned u.s. AIR FORCE, peacefully cruised eastbound above the sandy beaches of Baltic Latvia toward the heart of the Soviet Union. With Russian officers peering over the shoulders of American pilots, with its distinguished passengers at the windows looking down upon unfamiliar landscape, the jet flew on across the great Russian plain, the jagged pattern of Russian farm fields, an occasional blue lake and great patches of green forest, until it let down through...
...Hoffa detests, and Massachusetts' Senator John, who had hoped that a fresh public examination of Hoffa's questionable dealings might help his labor bill along in the House-a matter of increasing urgency since Hoffa is now mulling over the idea of creating a nationwide "council" of transport workers with the help of Red-tinged Harry Bridges of the West Coast International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...
...lost much of its appeal and whose leaders were perpetually torn between accommodating the conservative labor unions and the radical left wing while formulating a policy that would appeal to the nation as a whole. Last week, as the biggest union of all-the powerful (1,300,000 members) Transport and General Workers-met for its biennial conference on the Isle of Man, Gaitskell's problems seemed weightier than ever...
Down with Unity. Britain faces a general election between now and next spring, and Gaitskell needs a unified party. He has held it together by unexciting compromises. This is not fiery enough stuff for cocky Frank Cousins, the ambitious boss of the Transport Workers, who by the peculiarity of labor voting, controls a bloc of 1,000,000 out of 6,800,000 votes at Labor Party conventions. Before a wildly cheering conference last week, Cousins baldly threatened the unity of the entire Labor Party by demanding immediate renunciation of the H-bomb. He further denounced the extent of Labor...