Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gleaming white in peacetime paint, the Army transport Thomas H. Barry eased out from Manhattan's Pier 84, nosed down the Hudson to the sea. Aboard her, goggly with excitement, 349 Army wives & children milled through the maze of corridors and companionways, clustered on deck for photographers, clung to the rail with last, fluttering farewells. The first contingent of service families was off to join the occupation forces in Europe...
...wives were eager to go anyhow. By the time the Barry reaches Bremerhaven, another transport will be at sea, a third preparing to sail. Within a month, some 1,250 wives & children will have passed through New York's Fort Hamilton embarkation center. Said one wife of her husband: "I'd rather live with him in a bomb crater than go on with this separation...
Actually, the Committee, while using this legalism to attack the pact, was also concerned for commercial reasons: 1) the U.S., which will provide 80% of international air travelers, will receive far less than that share of the transport business, and 2) CAB, which has kept U.S. shipping interests out of airlines, would have to give U.S. landing rights to foreign airlines owned or controlled by competing steamship lines. The Committee skipped over what the U.S. had gained, the commercial use of leased British bases, many of which were built with U.S. funds, such as Bermuda's Kindley Field...
Even CAB no longer seemed satisfied with the workings of the pact's rate-fixing machinery. The International Air Transport Association had set transatlantic fares at $360, far above the tempting low fares U.S. lines had promised. This revived CAB's earlier fears that I.A.T.A. was but a well-disguised high-fare cartel. Said CAB Chairman L. Welch Pogue: "It seems incredible that people should get together in a fare conference . . . and that nobody should have made a proposal other than the one actually agreed upon...
...This course is establishing a much better relationship between labor and management," claims Richard S. Hamme of the United Transport Service Employees of America (C.I.O.). General chairman of the New Haven Railroad adjustment board, Hamme's home is Boston, and he is one of the few commuters enrolled this year...