Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With characteristic courage, China has surmounted the past year's difficulties: two terrible famines that swept Honan and Kwangtung, a price level now 87 times the pre-war level, the throttling grip of the blockade, the hunger of vast armies for medicines and munitions, the creeping paralysis of transport. The only major Japanese military drive this year-the campaign in western Hupeh-has been smashed. The Chinese Air Force has taken the air for the first time in several years, shot down enemy planes, cooperated with the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force...
...been a Boston College Track Star and still makes his Saturday nite runs into Boston. . . DAVE HORWITZ was in the First Marine Division on Guadalcanal in late '42 and spent some time on a seaplane tender in the South Pacific. . . CLIFF HARRIS was a corpsman on a troop transport that made a tour of Casablanca, Australia, New Zealand, India and the Panama Canal. . . HAROLD BANKSTON did some time in the North Atlantic and in the North Pacific and he wasn't chasing whales. . . so please, Honey, when you visit me here please don't expound too much on my cruising...
Matson's hopes are high, but they run smack into CAB policy. Several years ago CAB scotched a deal between Matson and Pan American Airways (for whom Matson acts as Pacific agents) whereby Matson and Pan Am would be equal partners in a new company furnishing peacetime air transport over the Pacific from the U.S. CAB which recently ordered American Export Airlines to divorce itself from its parent shipping company, is opposed to the ownership of airlines by carriers...
...command the young lady to appear in town and meet her at the Back Bay station, which is fairly convenient to the places to go and things to do. She can catch one of a number of trains back. When you go to visit her without means of automotive transport, there is a limited number of prospects before you. Two in fact. Visiting the corner drug store for a soda and walking around the dimly lit and grassy shores of Lake Waban. The latter type of entertainment is recommended for them...
...long-distance homing flights (in Air Transport Command planes) a wounded man has only a No. 3 priority. But once he is aboard a plane, his priority is No. 1. In actual battle areas the planes used are the big Army transports, C-46s and C-47s. Sometimes the planes do hospital work both ways-U.S. transports took a 750-bed hospital from Port Moresby to Buna-but usually, on their trips toward the battle line, they carry fighting men and materiel, therefore cannot show the Red Cross...