Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exquisite Lucius Beebe, recording the rarefied doings of the haut monde in his syndicated 'column, This New York, reported: "The greatest wartime grief of the town's exquisites is not the curtailment of moderate essentials of living like food and transport, but the complete disappearance from circulation of Floris's mouthwash, formerly imported from England! . . . There isn't a flagon of this choosy smell left on any chemist's shelf in town...
This wrecking process had two objectives: 1) to put a long-term strain on Italy's resources; 2) to hamper the enemy's efforts to amass sufficient reserves of food, munitions and transport for the defense of the islands which cannot long subsist on their own resources...
Presumed Dead. Leslie Howard (néStainer), 50, genteel stage & screen favorite; in a Lisbon-to-London transport plane downed by the Nazis...
...London, Lieut. J. H. G. Goodfellow, R.N.V.R., demonstrated to the Ministry of War Transport a simple stove for lifeboat use which can distill six quarts of fresh water at a time. Compact and light (28 lb.), the little still can burn kerosene or wood...
...WAFS' second graduation. When the last diploma was handed out, the new pilots became members of the Army Air Transport Command, by next afternoon were fanning out to ferrying bases at Long Beach, Calif., Dallas, Tex., Romulus, Mich., and Wilmington, Del. There they joined up with other WAFS already delivering aircraft from factories to Army tactical bases...