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What were Russia's real reasons? Best guesses: Russia has not been enthusiastic over "freedom of transit, i.e., the right of planes of any nation to fly over the territory of another and land to refuel, a doctrine which both the U.S. and Britain favor. More important, Russia was opposed, as is the U.S., to the British plan for an all-powerful international air commission. The British want such a commission to control international civil aviation by doling out routes, setting fares, eliminating "uneconomic competition," etc. Russia did not want to go along with these views even temporarily...
...most sensational art losses in Europe was the disappearance of two Titians and of Breughel the Elder's The Blind Leading the Blind while in transit from the German-held Monte Cassino Abbey to the Vatican...
...open until late at night, issuing emergency gasoline rations to any A-card holder who promised to carry a earful with him. The Army & Navy pressed hundreds of jeeps and trucks into service to keep production going at the Army Ordnance Depot and the Navy Yard. But the Philadelphia transit system regularly carries 1,150,000 persons a day. Thousands had to walk, on days when the thermometer shot to 97 degrees. At the huge General Electric, Westinghouse and Budd plants, production slumped more than...
First a Plea. On the strike's third day the Army moved in. Under a Presidential order, Major General Philip Hayes took control of the city's transit system. He broadcast instructions to the strikers to return to work at the next 5:30 a.m. shift and sent two soldiers to raise an American flag over the carbarn where the strikers made their headquarters. As the flag flapped up to the top of the pole one of the strikers began to sing the Star Spangled Banner. About 2,000 shirt-sleeved, sweaty strikers joined in. Even James McMenamin...
...spite of the heat (96°) and the transit strike (see U.S. AT WAR), Philadelphians-29,166 of them-jammed into Shibe Park for a jamboree. The hot time was in honor of one Cornelius McGillicuddy, 81, from East Brookfield, Mass. Connie Mack had finished a half-century of big-league baseball management (Pittsburgh, three years; Milwaukee, four years; the Philadelphia Athletics, 43 years).* A jazz band let go, Abbott & Costello clowned. Master of Ceremonies Ted Husing stepped to the microphone near home plate to read a telegram from Franklin Delano Roosevelt: ". . . my sincere and best wishes on your Golden...