Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...built Douglas transport was perilously close to the German fighter bases on the northern tip of Jutland. Out of a cloud, like a falcon striking at a swan, came a Nazi pursuit ship, the machine-gun muzzles along its black wings blinking like baleful orange-red eyes. The Swedish pilot sobbed a prayer or a curse, threw the wheel over, kicked his rudder pedals, fought to lose altitude and get down near the water without pulling the wings off. The Nazi pilot took his time, turned smoothly to follow the clumsy transport's evasive action, made another pass...
...weeks earlier another transport, the Gladen, had been lost in much the same way. Swedish airline officials suspended service to England, planned to ask for guarantees of safe conduct. The Government was expected to issue an official protest. But the Stockholm newspaper Nya Dagligt Allehanda urged the only technique that has ever been known to work with Nazis: get tough and halt the flying of German courier planes over Swedish territory...
...arithmetic. Said the President: 21,135 trucks have been sent to Australia in two and a half years, as compared with 750,000 made available for the U.S. Of the trucks sent to Australia, 12,000 were taken by the Australian Army, most of the others used for military transport...
Food and fuel must be provided for the winter-fruit and vegetables are plentiful now, tiding most districts over the fall. Coal must come from U.S. stocks. Germans would no longer have to use 300 locomotives and 15,000 coal cars to transport 12,000,000 tons of coal to Italy each year...
...mile U.S.O. tour. But not a single top-rank U.S. comedian could get by for long without his stable of gagmen. The comic demands of regular radio appearances are too heavy for one man's wits. This fact confronted U.S.O. with a traffic problem when it decided to transport U.S. comedians abroad to entertain the troops. The gagmen would have made just so much extra baggage...