Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Purpose of the concert is to raise the money necessary to transport the 120 redcoated players and their instruments down South. "In fact, the only thing the band expects to get out of the trip besides bankruptcy is publicity," Howard said...
First and foremost, Europe's production effort must be recharged with food, fuel, power, transport and equipment. Said the report: "More food for miners means more coal; more coal means more steel; this in turn makes it possible to produce more mining and agricultural machinery to produce more coal and more food, and more transport equipment to enable the increased supplies of coal to flow smoothly from the pits." The plan specifically included western Germany...
...this year the Arlessoroff, with 1360 refugees aboard, was reported in British custody some 15 miles north of Tel Aviv. Its destroyer escort was trying to maneuver the refugee ship toward Cyprus and way from the task of transferring the truculent Jews from the Arlossoroff to a special transport for the Cyprus trip...
John Santo, back-of-the-throne boss of the C.I.O.'s powerful Transport Workers Union, sat last week like Gilbert & Sullivan's Baronet of Ruddigore watching the ghostly march of his dead ancestors. In a drive against alien Reds, the Government was trying to prove that alien-born John Santo was a Communist and subject to deportation. As witnesses against him the Government had rounded up a batch of repentant Communists...
...Last June, 40 sheep and I had a memorable trip en route to Taiyuan in a transport plane. Twice I helped the co-pilot herd the sheep out of the plane's tail after they had jumped the rear fence of their bamboo corral and made the plane tail-heavy. When I told the pilot what had happened, he mused: 'I wondered why this damned airplane was dragging...