Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ababa with the French port of Djibouti. Last week, according to the French, Il Duce had forced the road into a deficit for the first time in 14 years by ordering Viceroy Graziani last year to "ship nothing by rail on which freight has to be paid," using motor transport instead. Inadequacy of this was said to account in part for food scarcity in Italian bases...
...Reports that Brihuega was simply an air victory, with [Italian] columns stampeded and panicked without fighting, are corrected when the battlefield is studied. It was a bitterly fought seven-day battle, much of the time rain and snow making auto transport impossible...
Efforts of Louis the Fourteenth's finance minister, Turgot, to build up an efficient national mail and freight transport service are shown in an "arrest" or decree, as well as many other Acts relating to the Postal Bureau...
When the President got around to choosing a permanent commission, he could not find a chairman. The late Senator James Couzens declined twice. Onetime Federal Coordinator of Transportation Joseph Bartlett Eastman refused in hopes that he may become coordinator of air transport...
...Kennedy was the nationally acclaimed chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, the New Deal's most successful reform to date. Last summer Congress passed the Ship Subsidy Act, authorizing a five-man Maritime Commission to govern U. S. shipping as the Interstate Commerce Commission rules U. S. land transport. Mean time, Joe Kennedy had resigned from SEC because he wanted to see more of his wife and nine children. Last week President Roosevelt again dragged Joe Kennedy out of private life to head the Maritime Commission...