Word: en
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occupation by the Japanese, the smugglers had run vessels under Italian, German and other flags, carrying gasoline, cloth, medicines, luxuries past the guns of the Japanese Navy. Profits were fantastic. For incoming gasoline the Chinese Government paid original costs plus expenses plus profit. Goods lost due to enemy action en route were also paid for. Out of such ports as Foochow the smugglers shipped much of the tung oil that repaid Chinese Government borrowing from...
...deplorable truck maintenance (sometimes 60% of all units are out of commission); inadequate roadside repair shops, and no gas depots; incompetent loading; unskilled, undisciplined grafting drivers (1,300 trucks have been wrecked since the Road was opened two and a half years ago); too many time-eating customs inspections en route; no authoritative, centralized control...
...State Department has issued them only transit visas, ∙ ∙ After a three-month separation the First Lady of Ethiopia has left Britain to join Haile Selossie in Addis Ababa, ∙ ∙ When the Mayor of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. learned Fiorello H. LaGuardia would stop at the city airport en route from Syracuse to New York City, he declared a public holiday. New York City's hedgehopping Mayor flew over the field, circled several times, winged off. ∙ ∙ In Portland, Ore., an empty car rolled away from the curb, rammed a car driven by former Senator Rush...
...Smolensk is a dead city like Pompeii. ... En route we saw burning villages and forests aflame, and more farmhouses destroyed. With the exception of one bank and one hotel, Smolensk was completely destroyed, with all houses burned down, streets blown up, railway cars, trams, autobusses wrecked...
...British farming in wartime. The agricultural expert was blonde, 49-year-old Lady Diana Duff Cooper, for many years "The Most Beautiful Woman in England," famed for her playing of the Madonna in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle. With her Cabinet Minister husband, Alfred Duff Cooper, she was en route to the Far East, where he will act as coordinator of Britain's war efforts...