Word: transported
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Berlin, uneasily quiescent since the airlift, had felt again the ruthless, unpredictable stranglehold of the Russians on its transport and western supply lines, and now asked: "What next?" And Western Europe, which seemed to be convalescing, was in some danger of running a temperature again. ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, who usually walks with a salesman's buoyant tread, reported in Washington last week that a "single new incident" might cause European Communist movements to remobilize...
...plane manufacturers behind the British in the development of jet transport planes? Last week Joseph J. O'Connell, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, told the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce that the reason, in effect, was indecision by the planemakers and confusion in Washington...
...answer, said CABoss O'Connell, was simply that U.S. planemakers were "naturally reluctant" to develop a jet transport ; they feared that they would not get enough orders to make up the development cost. "So long as military orders roll in," said O'Connell, "and Washington debates what it is going to do [about paying for jet transport development], there is little reason to believe that any manufacturer will enter into the jet transport field...
...Most celebrated was Su Tung Po (1036-1101), who was exiled for three years to Hainan. Poet, painter, engineer and herbalist, Su fought against the state socialism of Premier Wang An-shih, who favored government monopoly of retail and wholesale trade, government control of transport (horses) and credit (loans to farmers). After eight years, Wang's statism reduced China to economic and political chaos...
...eliminate confusion in air terms among international airlines, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) last week distributed a glossary to make everything clear. Prize example...