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...million in long-term credits repayable in Egyptian cotton. This would be spent to 1) build a new, $300,000,000 hydroelectric irrigation dam that would nearly double Egypt's cultivatable area and multiply its electrical output; 2) construct a 275,000-ton merchant marine; 3) modernize transport and communications; 4) improve ports. They wanted German equipment and technicians...
...Steinhardt, onetime (1939-41) troubleshooting U.S. Ambassador to Russia who was killed in the crash of an embassy plane while Ambassador to Canada in 1950; and Air Force Major General Lucas V. Beau, 57, national commander of the Civil Air Patrol and wartime commanding general of the Mediterranean Air Transport Service in Africa and Italy; both for the second time; in Rockville Centre...
...Force aide is an old acquaintance of Ike's: Major William G. Draper, 32, wartime transport pilot who in early 1951 was assigned as personal pilot to the SHAPE commander. At Ike's request, Draper was summoned from Europe in December to fly the President-elect and his party to Korea. In his new job, Draper will double as pilot of the presidential DC-6, the Independence...
...project is among the most ambitious feats in the history of private capital. The company operates its own air transport service for personnel and supplies. And it is now in mid-construction on a 358-mile double-track railroad to bring the ore down to dockside in the St. Lawrence Gulf. First ore shipments are due in 1954. Soon afterward, production will rise to about 10 million tons a year, and can be boosted to 30 million...
...house. Barbara Johnson Kidder had learned at the Mary MacArthur Center how to care for her husband. Last fall, everything was set. The National Foundation shipped out a rocking bed, a wheelchair, an iron lung, a portable respirator and oddments of other equipment. It arranged with the Military Air Transport Service to fly Kidder west. He made the trip in an iron lung (by a roundabout scenic route), with MATS supplying a forklift to heft him in & out of the plane's extra-wide doors...