Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have a new No. 1 man-and perhaps a new policy-in troubled Italy. Colonel James Henderson Douglas Jr., 46, a Chicago lawyer and businessman now serving in the Air Transport Command, has agreed to resign from the Army Air Forces early this month and join the Allied Commission in Rome...
Home Minister Genki Abe called upon the People's Volunteer Corps to abandon "all thoughts of self and life." Sugar King, Aiichiro Fujiyama announced that: "Japan's big business is not in any way interested in anything short of a total victory." Tokyo's motor transport was drafted for defense. Writers were enlisted for home-front propaganda. Cried Radio Tokyo: "The sooner the enemy comes, the better for us, for our battle array is complete...
...most apt to be brass-knuckled. Although commercial fly ing across the Atlantic is brand-new to T.W.A. and American, flying the oceans is old stuff. American, for example, is cur rently flying seven round trips a day over the North Atlantic for the Army's Air Transport Command...
...case arose out of a nasty strike in Philadelphia. A union official was killed and a partner in the firm of Hunt's Motor Freight and Food Products Transport was tried for the murder and acquitted. Thereafter, the A.F. of L. transport workers refused to negotiate with Hunt's; refused to admit any Hunt employes into the union. Without union labor, Hunt's was effectively boycotted, finally went out of business...
...Academician A. F. Joffe undertook to lay their doubts at rest. Said he: "Can scientific research be planned? There are people who claim that fulfillment of any plan is incompatible with the private initiative of a scientist, and that science, aiming at solution of practical problems in industry, agriculture, transport or defense, delays treatment of deeply theoretical problems which promise nothing in the way of practical results in the immediate future. Yet the experience of science in the Soviet Union shows that these and other contradictions advanced by the opponents of state participation in the guidance of scientific endeavor...