Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announced his intention to speak at the Temple meeting, cherry-red Joe Curran, head of the Maritime Union, promptly threatened to throw a picket line around the meeting. Carey dared him to try. Other Party Line followers in C.I.O. (the C.P. is strong in the Fur Workers Union, the Transport Workers, some locals of the U.A.W., the Aluminum Workers and the Newspaper Guild) fumed in silence. But for the vast majority of C.I.O. Jim Carey had cleared the air, had shown that friendship for Russia is one thing, Communism something else again. Said he last week in Washington...
Britain last week lifted a ban on the railway transport of spring flowers. From Scotland the first boxes of snowdrops went south. The first gorse glinted gold on the Chiltern Hills. London's Hyde Park was carpeted with purple crocuses which lovers crushed, unmindful of the grunts of passersby...
...Giraud mission in Washington) was dispatched to take temporary charge. De Gaulle also named a temporary appointee, Colonel Pierre de Chevigné, who was also in Washington. Colonel le Bel got instant cooperation from the State Department (and the use of a U.S. Army transport plane). De Gaulle's nominee was informed that no transportation was immediately available...
Said an official spokesman at General MacArthur's Australian headquarters: "It would be a grave fallacy to believe that even the heavy destruction caused by our naval and air power has dangerously weakened the enemy's capacity for sea transport...
They climbed and climbed. Fourteen days after they had left Shwebo, they reached a mountain village of thatched huts. There they were met by a white man sent by the general commanding supply and transport in the Assam-Bengal area. They were safe, but somehow depressed. Rain fell. In one of the thatched huts the girls sat around an open fire. A voice called: "Jack, Jack, come to sleep...