Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty Soviet businessmen, left behind by the Red Army, grumbled because their Government had been denied permission to land a plane that would transport them out of Mukden. Inscrutable Chinese officials had no comment...
London's war-scarred, double-decked buses yielded to the call of spring. Last week they ran in pairs through the crowded streets. The harassed Passenger Transport Board had a new problem: sex. Tender feelings had blossomed between male drivers and their trousered woman ticket takers, who are known as "clippies." Chivalrous drivers, closely following another bus, cut their own passenger loads, thus greatly reducing their clippies' chores. The consequent disruption of schedules and the savage reaction of stranded customers encouraged the P.T.B. to step up the replacement of clippies by male conductors. Romance...
Stating that "nobody can foresee the expansion of aviation in the near future, Dean Landis feels that the power of fully developed national and international air transport to preserve peace is important...
...mountains near Nanking, amid the wreckage of a transport plane, a charred body lay. A scrap from a woolen sweater, a bodyguard's pistols, the testimony of a grief-stricken aide identified the fire-eaten remains as those of General Tai Li, one of China's most mysterious, most respected and most dreaded men. There was no official announcement of his death. But Lieut. General Cheng Chieh-min, 47, the Government's Moscow-educated G-2 chief, was named to succeed Tai Li as head of China's secret police...
...Francisco had eight cases but no deaths. When smallpox was reported aboard a naval transport which arrived bearing 1,426 home-hungry sailors and marines, alarmed health officials flatly refused to let anyone come ashore until April 1. A regular old-fashioned smallpox scare quickly started, spread up & down the coast...