Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warned that business will not be able to employ all of the adolescent population and suggested education as an alternative to employment. We cannot transport the young people to penal colonies "however gratifying that might...
...movie is reputed to have been made with great care, and several months were required to take scenes in the wilds of the interior and to transport the pictures over the Andes...
...hours a day for 20 years) during which he completed 2,400,000 miles of flying, United Air Lines veteran pilot, Captain Jack Knight, was retired to a ground job in Chicago as director of public education. Flyer Knight, now cadaverous, soulful-looking and 44, has more transport hours and miles to his record than any pilot in the U. S. ¶ One night last week, just after announcing his engagement to a Hampshire typist, Britain's Flying Officer A. E. Clouston, using the De Havilland Comet airplane that won 1934's England-Australia derby, took off from...
...artillery brigade usually of three regiments. It moved mainly on foot. Two years ago, U. S. Chief of Staff Malin Craig decided that engineering and mechanical progress had made the infantry division obsolete, asked his staff for a report on a new unit to embody all changes in power, transport and armament mechanization since the War. Result of his demand, the P. I. D. consists of 13,500 officers and men, contains three unbrigaded infantry regiments, one artillery regiment of four battalions. Most important characteristic of the P. I. D. is its ability to march entirely on wheels. Slogging along...
CINCUS-designate Bloch, born to Czechoslovakian immigrant parents in Woodbury, Ky., is a sombre tight-lipped officer who has been cited for meritorious service in two wars, for rescuing Spaniards from Admiral Cervera's burning squadron off Santiago in 1898 and for commanding the naval transport Plattsburg 20 years later. Gobs who wondered whether CINCUS Bloch would be as stern a disciplinarian as CINCUS Hepburn were last week enlightened by his sister, Mrs. Stella Bloch of Bowling Green, Ky.: "He is sensitive, studious, generous to a fault but always ready to fight when teased...