Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little engine called the "Road Transport Gas Turbine" was the sensation of the British Industries Fair, which opened last week at Birmingham. Though it has not yet completed its bench tests, London newspapers hailed the gas turbine as the advance guard of a power revolution. A vehicle driven by a gas turbine, the experts explained, would have no cooling system, no gearshift (except for reversing and extra-low gear), no continuous ignition system. It would be almost vibrationless, would need little lubrication, and would burn low-priced fuel such as kerosene or diesel...
...alleged discovery of the Berlin Museum collections in a German salt mine [TIME, March 29] is nothing more than a reporter's fib. No American lieutenant colonel ever "stumbled on the treasure." One of the curators of the Berlin Museums had been commissioned by me to accompany the transport...
...Play a Bad Card . . ." "I felt I had something to do in politics," says Spaak of this period, "but all the doors were closed." In 1935, a door opened. Premier Paul van Zeeland asked him to enter the Cabinet as Minister of Transport, Posts & Telegraphs. Spaak accepted. Then, excitedly, he telephoned his mother: "Maman, if your telephone breaks down, complain directly to me. I'm the new Communications Minister." The next year he became Foreign Minister...
...luxury hotels such as the Miramar, room & board was about $8 a day. In smaller places a tourist could eat and sleep well for as little as $2 to $4 a day. All hotels had stern instructions from the government not to gouge U.S. tourists. Said Minister of Transport Christian Pineau: "[Americans] are no longer all millionaires . . . We will have to show [them] a good time at a reasonable price...
...Naughty Sun. In the backwater districts which Henry administered, servants took the place of the "water supply, sanitation, metalled roads, mechanical transport and shops of Western communities." Though "relatively humble" people, Henry and Annette lived and traveled with as many as 39 servants (senior officials carried a train of more than 100). They raised four children in a swampy wasteland teeming with wild pigs, buffalo, cobras, scorpions, fleas, flies and ("most abundantly") leeches. Fever and dysentery were everyday matters-trifles compared with the cholera which, by slow degrees, killed their beautiful youngest child...