Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than 800 feet into the murk, there rained a shower of debris-an officer's cap, a parachute, the wing of a plane. On the skyscraper's 58th floor, beyond a gaping hole in the wall, lay the rest, the wreckage of an Army light Beechcraft transport, the bodies of its Army pilot and four passengers, including a WAC officer...
...agency lacked not only food but talent. UNRRA's Shanghai office (responsible for relief in the mortally stricken Hunan province) had long been under fire for rank inefficiency. Irate businessmen reported that relief supplies were sold in coastal markets instead of being shipped to the interior. While transport difficulties were admittedly enormous, an able administrator could have shipped much of the stores to starving regions accessible by river...
Nowadays sprawling B.A.'s transport was so old and overburdened that Pedro had to get up an hour early to catch the streetcar to work. To save money, Pedro had also stopped lunching downtown, and that meant another scramble for a ride home. Maria, his wife, knew how to stretch a peso, but the noonday meal seldom varied from the traditional puchero (meat and vegetable stew...
...While flying over vast expanses of the world as an Air Transport pilot," Ackerman says, "I had the idea that all the different peoples should be able to get closer together. There's a lot people right here in the U.S. can learn if they'll meet and understand each other...
...schedule of new transatlantic air fares drawn up by the International Air Transport Association last February became a scrap of paper last week. The Civil Aeronautics Board, which has the final word for U.S. airlines, refused to approve...