Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invasion proceeded with machine-like precision. Transport planes floated down on the airstrips at four-minute intervals. U.S. and British battleships, cruisers and destroyers marched in stately file through the treacherous Uraga Channel into Tokyo Bay. It was almost too smooth. Said a dry Britisher, watching Brigadier General William T. Clement and a few marines raise the U.S. flag over Yokosuka's terraced naval base: "Now he'll declare the bazaar open...
After the Army transport had taxied to a halt on Atsugi airfield one day last week, the first man to climb down was a tall, loose-jointed officer with the three stars of a lieutenant general gleaming on his shirt collar. Said the General, grinning...
...Korea (then known as the Hermit Kingdom) in 1882, signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce, built the country's first trolley line, rail way and waterworks. The Japanese, after defeating Russia in 1904-05, made Korea their colony and highroad to Manchuria. They gave it modern transport, developed its mines, exploited its farms, opened Shinto shrines...
...Worriers. In Chungking last week the Korean Provisional Government chafed anxiously, hoped hard for Chinese and U.S. air transport homeward. While waiting, Foreign Minister T. Josowang paid public tribute to Korean troops with the Red Army and with the Chinese Communists, who last month suddenly sponsored a Korean Independence League (TIME, Aug. 20). "We welcome any al lies," he said, "marching in ... for the purpose of liberating . . . the fatherland...
There were so many reporters (300-odd) scrambling around the battleship Missouri in Tokyo harbor last week that they spilled over their assigned space on the ship's deck. Dozens of the U.S. newsmen were looking for Joe Blow, the local boy who made good. Aboard one destroyer transport, the squawk box ordered all New York men to double to the fo'c'sle to meet the New York Times's representative. He turned out to be the Times's general manager himself, Brigadier General Julius Ochs Adler. Lesser reporters, many with the names...