Word: convoying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black-scarred coal strips and tipples of 70 independent coal mines, owners and a scattering of non-union diggers worked warily, with loaded shotguns and rifles close at hand. A convoy of 15 loaded coal trucks was ambushed in hilly Centre County, attacked with rifle fire and stones before the drivers could rumble on to safety. At Grassflat, a $10,000 tipple of the Junedale Coal Co. was blown up by a 50-lb. charge of dynamite. One non-union mine owner drove off marauding strikers with a brace of .45 automatics; another was stabbed during an argument with U.M.W...
This occurred in spite of 15 policemen detailed to convoy pedestrians and keep the traffic moving. A handful of city engineers watched yesterday's mess and suggested...
...Stalin School" at Huk headquarters his instructors had taught him "Communism, songs like the Red Flag and the International, and all about Communist success in Russia and China." Awaiting trial in the Nueva Ecija provincial jail, he related how, before the Quezon ambush, his group had raided a convoy of ten trucks without harming anyone. "Why didn't you loot the Quezon party in the same way and let them go?" I asked. He replied with the Huk view of the class war: "People in trucks are not our mortal enemies. People in passenger cars...
...authorities decided to mount a military convoy, manned by unarmed soldiers, with supplies for the U.S. garrison in Berlin, and announced that it would be sent through as a "training convoy." This show of force, decorated with doubletalk, was something the Russians could understand. They waved the convoy through, and simultaneously quickened the inspection rate of the trucks at Helmstedt to one every three minutes...
British battleship Anson, the British carriers Implacable, Victorious and Theseus, the French carrier Arromanches, three British and five French cruisers, and 21 destroyers and destroyer escorts-headed in convoy for the Bay of Biscay. Submarines launched dummy torpedoes, French and British carriers exchanged air strikes, bombers roared overhead. Meanwhile, smaller craft of the Belgian navy joined other Western Union ships in mine-sweeping operations in Weymouth...