Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the Governor: "There have been increasing signs . . . that our newspapers are being denied the right to print all the news. Important matters have repeatedly been withheld for months . . . the shooting down of 23 transport planes . . . what really happened in Teheran . . . the disquieting evidence of [United Nations] disunity. . . . One such incident might be charged to blunder; two such incidents begin to lay the unpleasant suspicion of Administration policy. People cannot fight a war with blinders on their eyes...
...hour until he talked her into bed again. Admitted by both sides: Chaplin paid her train fare both ways but did not travel with her, did not pay her hotel bills. Asserted by the defense: she went at her own request; Chaplin had no "intent" to transport her for immoral purposes and did not consummate any such purpose in New York...
Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur Howe totted up Canada's 1943 war production: 4,133 aircraft; 15,500 fighting vehicles; 45,000 gun barrels, mountings and carriages; 175,000 units of mechanical transport; 580,000 machine guns, rifles and other small arms; 30,000,000 rounds of artillery ammunition; 1,500,000,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition; 1,000,-000,000 lb. of chemicals and explosives; $180,000,000 worth of precision instruments and communications equipment; 150 merchant ships; 100 naval vessels. Total value: $3,435,000,000, an increase of $535,000,000 over 1942 war production...
Konev used his tanks both to fight and to transport. His favorite tank is the adaptable T-34, with its broad treads, high belly clearance, a reinforced axle. Its German counterpart, Mark V, or Panther, often bogs down in the mud and breaks its axle. The Red tanks carry Tommy gun crews, equipment and fuel barrels strapped to the side. They also tow caravans of mud sledges, loaded high with food and ammunition...
About 900 freight cars would be required to transport this tonnage by rail. It compares with 13,000 tons dropped by the R.A.F. in the 52 weeks of 1940, with 7,500 tons dropped by the Germans in the entire London blitz...