Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy has had to sink the ships which survived Bikini. Last week the submarine Skate and the transport Crittenden were destroyed during landing maneuvers off Southern California. Next month the heavy cruiser Pensacola and the destroyer Hughes will be sent to the bottom. Two years and three months after Bikini, all four were still radioactive...
Associate Dean Watson yesterday met complaints of men quartered in the gym with orders for a general housecleaning and an announcement that University employees will transport the trunks of men moving out of the Blockhouse...
...Transport Workers' President Mike Quill, who had already led 40,000 of Manhattan's subway, bus and elevated operators out of the Communist-dominated Greater New York C.I.O. Council, locked horns with his own Communist-dominated international executive board. When the board refused to endorse Harry Truman, Mike countered by kicking out smart, swarthy Harry Sacher as lawyer ($6,000 a year) for T.W.U.'s Local 100. Said Quill: "He is a conniving member of the Communist Party and he has connived with the party to wreck the union. Sacher has an ego like a peacock...
...less than 50,000 Red army soldiers in Rumania but, stationed at key points throughout the country, they are enough. Also, Moscow has settled about 20,000 Russian families around Constanta on the strategic Black Sea coast. Through seven huge "Sovroms" (Soviet-Rumanian combines), the Russians almost completely control transport, oil, timber, banking, and everything else they can lay their hands on, even including Rumania's tiny motion picture industry. A Rumanian proverb covers the situation: "When the Russians help us, they always take something away...
...straining the reservoir of U.S. transport planes, it has bolstered the industry's argument that the Government should share the mounting cost of pioneering new transport types. By getting an average eight-hours-per-day out of each of its 192 planes, it has proved what oldtimers like Eddie Rickenbacker have long preached: that the more a plane is used, the better performance it gives. Said Airlift Boss Lieut. General Curtis LeMay last week: "Leave a plane on the ground and it starts deteriorating. But keep it in the air, with regular maintenance, and it thrives on steady...