Word: transport
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Used during World War II as an Air Transport Command base, Mellaha is strategically located for the diplomatic war in the Mediterranean. It is a ramp from which A.T.C. planes, carrying a steadily increasing military traffic, can take off to southern Europe and the Middle East. From desolate Mellaha's three strips, it is 775 miles to Athens, goo miles to the Dardanelles, 1,300 miles to Palestine...
...Protocol M in a message for Red operatives, "will be the decisive period in the history of the German working class. . . . This battle is ... for starting positions for the final struggle. . . ." Then the language became more explicit. Communist cadres would foment hunger demonstrations among factory workers to disrupt production. Transport workers would be prodded to tie up food distribution. The timetable charted general strikes for March, when stocks of fall potatoes would be running out and the Ruhr would be at its hungriest. "The Soviet Union," ran the assurance, "can and will support this battle. . . . The Communist Information Bureau...
...others: John McCone, president of the West Coast's old and famous Joshua Hendy Iron Works; George P. Baker, professor of transportation at Harvard Business School, director in 1945 of the State Department's Office of Transport and Communications Policy and chief spokesman for the postwar Air Coordinating Committee; Arthur Whiteside, president of Dun & Bradstreet and frequent adviser to Government agencies; Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, energetic publisher of the Denver Post, onetime head of the domestic branch...
After the war he ran the Atlantic division of the biggest airline of all-the Air Transport Command. For the last 16 months he has been the U.S. representative on the International Civil Aviation Organization at Montreal. He impressed Air Secretary Stu Symington and Commerce Secretary W. Averell Harriman by his negotiating of international air routes. They recommended him to Harry Truman...
...furious I could feel the blood pounding in my veins throughout my body." The U.S. Marines had come, and with them a naval escort that stretched as far as the eye could see. After ten days of pounding, the warships and carrier planes ceased fire, and a transport commander said complacently to a Marine colonel: "Everything's done over there. You'll walk in." Replied the colonel: "If you think it's that easy why don't you come on the beach at five o'clock, have supper with me, and pick...