Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lanes are getting too thick with planes. In the near future, most air traffic experts agree, something new will be needed to keep them from getting in each other's way. Recently the Air Transport Association of America described an ideal system for instrument designers to shoot at. It amounted to the sort of block system that railroads...
When tax money is used to transport a child to a denominational school, it might be remembered: 1) the people who subscribe to that denomination also pay taxes; 2) to pay for transportation is not to pay for religion; it is not even to pay for education. . . . The wall between church and state remains -but it is not moved so far over as to crush a child...
Outside the House of Commons another big blizzard snarled transport and set back recovery from The Crisis. But inside the chill Victorian-Gothic chamber, tempers were short and hot. The Mother of Parliaments, majestic but not stuffy, had one of her stormiest, most boisterous weeks in recent history. It went along like this...
...Class Fascist." By then the House was deep in invective over another sort of execution-the Government's "guillotine" to speed two of its key measures (nationalization of inland transport, and town-&-country planning). Churchill stormed that the Government motion to cut off committee discussion was "strangulation of parliamentary debate . . . legislation by Government decree." Stung by ironic cheers from the Labor side, he lashed at the "idea of the government of the people, by the officials, for the party bosses," cried that "the liberties and the free life of Britain are in great danger" from Socialism...
...time his rocket flasks had boosted the overloaded transport-with all the Kee Bird's crew-into the air, another Superfort was in trouble, 2,000 miles away. A last message placed it over Alaska's famed Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Then it vanished, with a crew...