Word: transporting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...door began opening on the commercial jet epoch, White House concern mounted. President Eisenhower frankly wondered whether the U.S. was indeed ready for jet transport. "Somebody," he said in the spring of 1955, "has got to take a look." There followed a nine-month committee survey, which reported appalling conditions. A few months later, Ike called in Major General Edward Curtis, Army airman in World Wars I and II (Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Force, Europe), and then (as now) a vice president of Eastman Kodak Co., told him to get going on an analysis of the problems...
HEADING eastward over the Arizona desert, high-flying transport pilots can pick up the urban glow of Phoenix from 70 miles out, as the city lies like a blue-white solitaire upon limitless black velvet. Though Phoenix expanded its limits from 17.1 square miles in 1950 to its present 110-square-mile area to make room for a tripled population (373,000), it remains no more than a brightly lit patch upon a landscape characterized by vastness...
Already, with a population density of 550 per sq. mi., Britain is the West's most thickly settled big nation.- "If you in the U.S. had our population density," Transport Minister Ernest Marples recently remarked in Los Angeles, "you could accommodate the entire population of the world-white, yellow, black, the lot. And all the present population of both the U.S. and the United Kingdom could be accommodated in Texas...
...year in good shape; e.g., Allied Chemical raised its 1959 earnings 46% (to $2.51 a share) despite a quarterly drop of 4% in profits. But nothing could save Douglas Aircraft Co. from a hefty 1959 loss as a result of heavy charge-offs against its new DC-8 jet transport program. The firm reported a loss of $33.8 million, compared with a $16.8 million profit in 1958. However, it expects peak deliveries of DC-8s in 1960 to boost overall sales to more than $1 billion-and profits with...
...M.P.H. SHIP will be built by Grumman Aircraft under $1,500,000 contract from Maritime Administration, which calls it one of the most significant advances in marine transport in 50 years. Powered by gas turbine engine, the all-aluminum, 104-ft. ship will carry 100 passengers, ride on hydrofoils that lift entire hull out of water...