Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cairo the Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek were the first to arrive, flying in from Chungking aboard a four-engined U.S. transport plane. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, with their separate parties, traveled to Africa by ship, made the last leg of the trip by plane...
...before bombed-out homes, drove radio propaganda cars, urging women and children to leave. The newspapers, on sale again in reduced format, gave the same bleak advice to all nonessential residents. Outside the city, in suburban recreation centers, thousands camped in tents or beneath the open sky, waiting for transport...
...will land on New Britain may not be too far off. The Jap was preparing. Allied reconnaissance spotted a flow of Jap shipping toward Rabaul. Not all the enemy got through: U.S. Navy Catalinas and U.S. Liberators hit two destroyers, set a tanker afire, sank a 10,000-ton transport...
...Marines' confidence rose. They wondered if the Japs, who undoubtedly knew that the Americans were coming, might now have evacuated Tarawa as they had Kiska. Then, suddenly, a great splash kicked up the sea a few hundred feet from one transport, only 50 feet from another. The Japs were firing their coastal guns. Betio would not be another Kiska, after...
...when China's war began in 1937. A year ago it was 80 times the prewar level, which gives economists hope: the rate of doubling and redoubling seems to be slowing down. Before the great Allied victories, prices were doubling every eight months. But China's transport planes still devote precious tons to the hauling of bank notes, and President Chiang Kaishek's Government still hesitates to apply full force to arresting the tide...