Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somehow, the late U.S. strike wave had missed the 65 Great Lakes shipping companies which form one of the nation's key transport links. Last week, the C.I.O.'s National Maritime Union was busy remedying the oversight...
...whites, the Eskimos are content to hug the coast. Their needs are few: cod, salmon, trout and seabirds for food, seal for their blubber lamps. They neither wash nor cook, and they have no need for roads. The sea is their kayak highway in summer; during the long winter, transport by husky-drawn komatik (sled) is fast and cheap...
...University from 1936 to 1938, at which time he was transferred to the submarine base at New London in the capacity of executive officer. In January, 1943, he was placed in charge of Submarine Squadron 14 an remained at that post until given command of a Pacific-bound assault transport in September...
Question for the Future. Italians were trying to help themselves. The nation's heavy industry was at a near 80% of capacity; rail transport was approaching normal; repaired harbors were handling a swelling flow of exports-$70,000,000 since Jan. 1; electric kilowatt-hours in the first four months this year were one million over the same period last year; the wheat crop, six million tons, was four-fifths of the prewar average. The 1946 raw silk estimate was the highest in history. Even inventors were busy: in Milan last week an auto-plane rolled at 40 m.p.h...
...trouble lay in the high-handed way the Commission had been run. That meant: Emory Scott Land, onetime chairman of the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration (now head of the Air Transport Association) and the late Howard Vickery, Commission vice chairman. They had often told shipbuilders to go ahead and build ships, with contracts to come along later. They had shifted material, men, and contracts by phone rather than formal letter, had kept much of the bookkeeping in their heads. No one denied that it was a wasteful way to build ships and highly expensive to the taxpayer...