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...centered around the Alaska Highway, the one road in the Northwest by which an aggressor force or a defending Allied army could travel. At night, troops had to leave the road to bivouac in the bush in their nylon tents and down-filled sleeping bags. But most of the transport was roadbound, an easy target for air attack...
...first five days. The Canadian Army's counterpart, the Penguin, stood up better but was too bulky to maneuver among the pines off the road. Before Sweetbriar was half over, observers were recommending that the Allied armies study the use of Arctic-conditioned dogs, mules and horses for transport...
British planemakers, already well ahead of the U.S. in commercial jet transports, are even farther ahead in turbo-prop planes (propellers driven by gas turbines). They have several test planes flying while the U.S. has none, although airmen expect the turboprops to be the short-range plane of the future as well as the intermediate aircraft between current reciprocating-engine planes and jet liners. Last week General Motors announced that it was finally putting the U.S. into the race to develop a turbo-prop transport...
Malaya is MacDonald's show window. British colonialism had developed it for trade, with incidental benefits to the natives, e.g., in transport and sanitation. There was limited concern for education; in 1948 two-thirds of Malaya's million children between six and twelve received no schooling at all. The color bar rankled. When the Japanese came, the Malay natives were largely apathetic; they had no sense of sharing the country with its British masters...
...hope of closing Britain's lead in jet transport planes, the Defense Department had recommended a $30 million congressional appropriation to build two jet transports. Last week Air Secretary Symington told the Senate Commerce Committee that the Bureau of the Budget had turned thumbs down on the bill to build the transports. It looked as if the U.S. would not get jet transports for a long, long time...