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Word: transport (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smaller Germany. Last week, as these possibilities unfolded, the Germans were increasingly disturbed by the future glimpses they saw. Into Paris, in a Luftwaffe transport, flew Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to see his old friend De Gaulle. Convinced that it is his historic mission to end the disastrous century-old rivalry between France and Germany, Adenauer has committed Germany's future to partnership with France, and he was alarmed by the direction De Gaulle was taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: An End of One's Own | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...million increase in welfare benefits (to $876 million) and unwilling to cut the $540 million for defense, Erlander had to abandon his tax-free dream. To the Riksdag he proposed a most unsocialistic solution: a 4% turnover (sales) tax on everything people buy except rent, prescription medicines, transport, fuel and packaging materials, plus a $45 million fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: The Cost of Welfare | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...their assignments are the best in the Air Force, even if they sometimes have to shell out some of their own money on some presidential trips to cover their meager $12-$18 per diem allowance. Trim, reserved Bill Draper is a thoroughgoing professional, a World War II Air Corps transport pilot flying the "fireball run" between Miami and India, personal pilot for President Eisenhower since 1950, when Ike was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe. Copilot is Iowa-born Lieut. Colonel William Thomas, 39, veteran of the Hump and Berlin airlift; navigator is Brooklyn-born Lieut. Colonel Vincent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING WHITE HOUSE: Flying White House | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...eleven have some degree of Australian ownership. But the Aussie who invests in a domestic company can make handsome profits on his own. In a land that is turning out its own diesel engines, railroad cars, jet aircraft and transistor radios, stocks are an investor's dream. Ansett Transport Industries, Clyde Industries (engineering), Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. (steel) are all up 50% in a year, while Colonial Sugar Refining has jumped 70% and Rothmans Ltd. (cigarettes) a whacking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Boom in Australia | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...were also court-martialed. Other underpaid officers (a four-star general gets only $174 a month) had coolly pocketed payrolls for their own troops. Stolen military supplies had become so important to the South Korean economy that in June, when investigators stripped 1,829 army tires from civilian vehicles, Transport Minister Kim II Hwan had to beg Song to call them off-"Otherwise Seoul and other cities will be without any public transport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Army for Sale | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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