Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symbols of the Soviet Union's sudden greatness are powered (as befits a state whose philosophy is materialism in flux) by twin motors, and airborne on the wings of mighty, pulsing transport planes. Fanaticism, like the air, knows no frontiers, and Moscow's big, drab airport (once the Imperial Field of Mars) is now the visible focus of Communism's pretentions to world dominion...
British Historian Arnold Toynbee (A Study of History) thus describes part of the price our civilization has paid in solving the problem of transport. Americans have their own way of saying it: "the nut that holds the wheel." California last week saw a crash that even Americans might remember a few days...
History moved tensely on the wings of two planes that passed last week in opposite directions over the wreckage of Europe. One, an Army transport, brought from Venezia Giulia the bodies of five U.S. flyers whose unarmed plane was shot down by Yugoslav fighters in America's first major postwar crisis. The crisis had passed, but the international tensions of which it was a peak continued. The five bodies, all crises past, lay flag-draped in the chapel of a Roman airport...
...swinging started over a dozen individualistic tram conductors, members of the small Passenger Workers' Union. They had staunchly refused to join the big Transport & General Workers' Union. Just as the Labor Government lifted wartime restrictions on the transport and mining industries, the big union issued a growling ultimatum to the trolleymen's employer, the London Passenger Transport Board: either the twelve must be fired, or all of London's buses would stop. The Board capitulated. But the Passenger Workers' Union forthwith prepared to fight for an injunction against the men's dismissal. Unless...
...episodes in Mister Roberts are just as simple-a quarrel between two roommates, the achievement of gonorrhea by a seaman at an apparently barren island-but they are told with aptitude and humor. Author Heggen, 27, who now writes for the Reader's Digest, served aboard an assault transport in the Pacific, at Guam, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, thereby seeing somewhat more action at sea than the Reluctant...