Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago in England, Flight Officer M. W. ("Larry") Doyle, 24, an R.C.A.F. bomber pilot, was hit by his plane's whirling propeller. It gouged out a part of the motor and the sensory areas of his brain. He was rushed to a hospital and operated on in 15 minutes, mostly to stop the blood flow...
Home Minister Genki Abe called upon the People's Volunteer Corps to abandon "all thoughts of self and life." Sugar King, Aiichiro Fujiyama announced that: "Japan's big business is not in any way interested in anything short of a total victory." Tokyo's motor transport was drafted for defense. Writers were enlisted for home-front propaganda. Cried Radio Tokyo: "The sooner the enemy comes, the better for us, for our battle array is complete...
...case arose out of a nasty strike in Philadelphia. A union official was killed and a partner in the firm of Hunt's Motor Freight and Food Products Transport was tried for the murder and acquitted. Thereafter, the A.F. of L. transport workers refused to negotiate with Hunt's; refused to admit any Hunt employes into the union. Without union labor, Hunt's was effectively boycotted, finally went out of business...
Acidly dissenting, Justice Roberts wrote: "It is hardly an accurate description of their attitude to say that the union men decided not to sell their labor to the petitioners. They intended to drive petitioners out of business as interstate motor carriers, and they succeeded in so doing...
...Burmese delegates came aboard from a motor launch. With the exception of one Burman, who wore formal morning dress, the delegates wore gay silk lungyis and scarlet headdresses. At the head of the green baize wardroom table sat Burma's governor, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, whom the Japanese had chased out of Burma. Now he was back. Back too was Premier Sir Paw Tun, whom the Japanese had also chased out. Near him sat bland, ambitious, influential U Than Tun, general secretary of the Communist-dominated Anti-Fascist Organization. Sayadaw Aletawaya, 90, head of the Buddhist church, sent...