Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions to present our side of the case. In France, the Communists got all the best newspapers after liberation, and the biggest allotment of newsprint. We ship in wheat and not a word of it gets in the paper. Russia sends in a boatload of wheat, makes the French transport it and pay for it in American dollars, and you'd think it was the millennium from the way the Communist newspapers play...
...Harold Wilson, 31, the youngest President the Board of Trade has ever had.* A star student at Oxford and later a don, he is an expert on coal and a master statistician. The third is George Russell Strauss, 46, the new Supply Minister, who made his mark as the Transport Ministry's parliamentary secretary by brilliant work on the transport nationalization bill...
...Develop Revolution." There was evidence that the U.S. was making up its mind. In recent days the Athens airport had resembled Washington's Boiling Field. White-starred C-54s of the Air Transport Command brought a stream of tight-lipped generals and high-ranking brass of the Air Force and Marine Corps, who hurried off to conferences and staff consultations. Some bounced in jeeps along the cratered, axle-snapping roads of Macedonia and Thrace, to inspect Greek Army units. Offshore, units of COMNAVMED, including the carrier Leyte, prowled around the Aegean islands...
...transport planes, Lockheed had shut down its Constellation production, if only temporarily, after T.W.A. turned back 14 planes it could no longer afford (Lockheed lost $4.9 million in the first half of 1947). Glenn L. Martin Co. faced big losses on its new two-engined transport, the 3-0-3, after United Air Lines (which had ordered 50 of the 84 ordered) canceled its $16 million contract. Even Douglas, now busy with its DC-6, felt shaky. Douglas' comptroller, Ralph V. Hunt, told the commission of the industry's "losses of record proportions, mounting costs, and a steady...
...Many Planes. The American transport plane is a vital tool of air power. But the airlines themselves were in a bad way; in the first seven months of 1947, only Eastern and Inland Air Lines managed to make an operating profit. Though September traffic was the greatest in the industry's history, the overall prospect for 1947 was still a loss. The airlines were in no shape to boost the sagging airframe industry; they ruefully informed the commission that they had already overbought on new equipment. All had been caught in the squeeze of higher wage, supply and other...