Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Transport of war matériel will cease Aug. 15; traffic of furloughed men to & from Norway and the "horseshoe traffic" from Trondheim to Narvik via Swedish territory will be discontinued Aug. 20. Only sop to the Nazis was the phraseology of the announcement, which called Sweden's decision an "agreement." No one was fooled; Sweden gave no compensating concessions. The Swedish Army (500,000 wellarmed, well-trained men) was holding full-scale maneuvers in south Sweden at the moment of the announcement. The action, affecting the transport of an esti mated 250,000 men per year, will force...
Hacking its way through jungles, a rescue party is inching toward a wrecked transport plane locked in the almost uncharted Naga Hills of northern Burma. With the 19 American and Chinese survivors of the crash are a U.S. Air Forces doctor and two enlisted men, who parachuted from a rescue plane...
...four-engined transport crashed from motor failure on a flight from India, to China. There had been just time to radio the nearest Allied base, an American outpost 100 miles away, then crew and passengers bailed out. All but two of the 21 landed safely. Among them: William L. Stanton, of the U.S. Office of Economic Warfare; John Davies, second secretary of the American Embassy at Chungking; Eric Sevareid, CBS news commentator; several Chinese colonels...
...Michael Curtiz' broad-brushed management of a scene in which the entire cast of 1918-5 Yip Yip Yap hank, on the closing night, marches from the stage through the audience to their France-bound transport. This scene, almost as good as similar tearjerkers in Cavalcade, is new with the film version...
...Transportation: Trucks and other motor transport were lagging. "Certain design problems" were still holding up large-scale armored-car deliveries...