Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mike was in the spotlight again. Red Mike was once a fighter in the Irish Republican Army, once a lowly change maker in a New York City subway station. Now Michael Joseph Quill, 40, is president of the C.I.O.'s Transport Workers Union and a member of New York's City Council. He is a practicing Catholic and a member of the American Labor Party...
...Nationalization of coal, civil aviation, overseas cable and radiotelegraph services, inland transport. The nationalization of iron and steel was still under consideration, but it looked a likely starter...
...Japan, traffic and transport workers won a sharp, significant victory. More than 5,000 members of their Communist-led union paraded through Tokyo, immediately achieved: 1) wage increases averaging 500%; 2) ousting of "reactionaries" from the company; 3) employe participation in management. Just before this victory, Japanese Reds had gained face because of U.S. concessions to Russia on control of Japan (TIME...
...idea of the airline was Earl Slick's. He had mixed flying lessons with his wildcatting, had been a wartime pilot in the Air Transport Command. Not long after he became a civilian last December, he heard that nine surplus Army Curtiss Commandos were up for sale. In Washington, he walked into RFC's surplus-plane division one day at i p.m., came out at 1:15 owning the planes. The price...
...Kidnapped in 1933, Urschel was held for nine days on a Texas farm till $200,000 was paid for his release. By remembering the precise time a transport plane passed over the farm daily, he was able to locate the farm, help the FBI trap the kidnappers. *A term used by Texans, notorious braggarts about Texas, to describe their opinion of their state. Those who have "demonstrated ability" in such bragging will be feted by Texas Citrus & Vegetable Growers Association in Washington at the first Texas Brag dinner...