Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Transport Workers Union of America...
...when the jobs they were created for were done. There was a Crime department in our first issue which soon became a part of National Affairs (now U.S. at War)-a Law department, which merged with Finance (called Business & Finance in 1929)-a department of Aeronautics, which was renamed Transport in 1934 and later added to Business & Finance...
Food was the immediate problem. AMGOT improved civilian mule-cart transport so that the island's farms could get their products (wheat now being harvested, tomatoes and olives, lemons, oranges and grapes) to the cities. Carefully it doled out, where necessary, Allied food stocks. Its reputation flew ahead. In many a liberated town the first question asked by black-bread eaters was: "Where is the white bread...
...Hermann Göring (armored) Division had held the British, waging battles which were still scantily reported in the U.S. press last week. One explanation of this temporary German success probably lay in an Allied communiqué of July 16: "The speed of the advance is very satisfactory, but transport and supporting weapons are of necessity limited during the present stages...
...parent who works for the Air Transport Command: his soldier son was prevented by military duties from appearing to say that Schweitzer was the best teacher he ever...