Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These days, instead of his dingy office of 30 years ago, he has six: in the House of Commons, at Whitehall, at 11 Downing Street, the Deputy Prime Minister's office, at the London County Hall, at Transport House and at the London Labor Party Center. He moves around the hexagon of desks with pixy-like buoyancy, a nearly constant smile proclaiming his insatiable pleasure in working and living...
...TRANSPORT. Labor plans to weld railways, trucking canals, docks & harbors (but not shipping) into a unit under a national transport board by next year. Rail and road haulage comapnies have already launched a "fight-to-finish" propaganda barrage against the project...
...instance, Sherrod tried for three days to buy a plane ticket for a quick trip from New Delhi, India, to Shanghai (via Calcutta and Manila). When he finally located the Air Transport Command officer and gave him money for the passage, the ATCman promptly lost it. So Sherrod bought another ticket and got to the airport just in time to watch his plane taking off (they had given him the wrong departure time). In Calcutta, nobody had even heard of his reservation for Manila. There, he found that his China visa had not arrived and, to make things more difficult...
...brilliant, unstable Jawaharlal Nehru, but he went off on a small and dizzy tangent to his native Kashmir, where the local maharaja, Sir Hari Singh, had arrested a popular leader, the sheik Mohamed Abdullah. Sir Hari had Nehru arrested. In protest, thousands of Bombay mill workers and Calcutta transport workers went on strike. Markets closed in many cities, and in Madura five Indians were killed in riots...
Convair has also started to build a military transport model of the plane, the C-99, expects it to carry 400 com. pletely equipped infantrymen. On the drawing boards is an even larger commercial version which is expected to haul up to 275 passengers. But Convair has no orders for the commercial transport (Model 37) as yet. Pan American Airways has plugged Convair's Model 37 in ads for more than two years. But even Pan Am has placed no solid order...