Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poet who perhaps came closest to succeeding was 68-year-old Wallace Stevens, a Hartford insurance man, in his latest book, Transport to Summer. W. H. Auden, an intellectual acrobat and a verbal magician, turned out 1947's most discussed book of verse: The Age of Anxiety. This modern eclogue described a chance meeting of four paper-thin characters in a Third Avenue bar; its moral was ex-radical Auden's glowing belief that worldly goods must be rejected. The verse itself was dexterous, bright but self-indulgent...
Also in progress in the laboratory in a study of animal instincts, with pack rats and hamsters, a Near East relative of the gopher, as chief subjects. Answers are being sought to such questions as why do rats form packs, why do they heard and transport miscellaneous small objects, and why do some animals build houses...
This decision, made last March, was not the first of its kind for Hank Myers, who would fly the President to Key West for a brief vacation this week. As a command pilot, Lieut. Colonel Henry Tift Myers, holder of a "Green Ticket"* in the Air Transport Command, has the authority to clear his plane to any destination under any flight plan he elects. As personal pilot for the President, Hank Myers' decisions are not always easy...
Alongside the giant transport planes, a Piper Cub looks like a gnat. A man can lift its tail with one hand, push it over with the other. On a fine summer's day, Cubs rise from the country's fields like a swarm of grasshoppers. Thousands of sportsmen, commuters, and joyriders use them for short hops between town and farm, home and hunting ground. Last week two young instructors from Maryland's College Park Airport proved that these flimsy air flivvers could also circle the world...
...Aircraft Co. had poured $13,400,000 of engineering and research and $1,500,000 of testing into the DC-6, concurred. Until the trouble was found, said Douglas, "all further passenger flying in these airplanes should be discontinued." It was the first time that a whole line of transport planes (there were 75 in service) had been grounded without a governmental order...