Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Troops on the Trains. The American correspondents found that optimists place the pro-Ally sentiment in "Swedes at 95%, and pessimists seldom drop the percentage below 90%. The correspondents also put their finger on the sorest spot in Sweden-the transport of Nazi troops over Swedish railways to Norway...
Thrice weekly Nazi troops avoid the dangers of coastal sea transport by traveling overland through Sweden from Storlien farther north to Riksgränsen. But most galling of all are the two "Reichswehr special" trains, sealed and guarded by Swedish soldiers, packed each day with 1,000 German troops being relieved at Oslo and replaced by fresh troops from Germany. The sight of well-fed Germans hanging out of train windows, yoohooing at Swedish girls, and carrying packages of food, butter and herrings out of starving Oslo is almost too much to stomach. So much public pressure has built...
...first the destroyer saw nothing more than the flotsam of defeat-empty gasoline cans, a soldier's kitbag floating, part of the landing gear of a German transport plane held up by a bloated balloon tire, a rubber raft on which a dead Nazi airman...
Yerex' meat was poison to Pan American Airways, which has had a monopoly on all scheduled air traffic south from Miami. It was not Pan Am's fault that it had not been able to transport all the people and freight accumulated in Miami: it could not get the necessary additional planes...
...series of technical agencies under the Council to knit Europe into an economic whole. Key transport would be under central control; no more tariffs would be permitted within Europe, although each nation could still determine its own trade policy toward the rest of the world. Europe would have a central bank, investment authority, cartel policy, etc., all aimed at a common (not uniform) economic life...