Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transport cruising slowly back & forth off the sulphurous, bloody hulk of Iwo Jima, Navy doctors knew there was no chance for Sergeant Charles Carter Anderson Jr., U.S.M.C.; he would never see the sun again. Sixteen hours after the young marine had been brought aboard, he died. His death certificate was filled out and sent to the captain of the ship. Grimly the skipper signed it: Captain Charles Carter Anderson, U.S.N...
...General was still around on D-plus-twelve, he must have seen something to pack his belly with anguish: a huge cloud of yellow dust rising over Motoyama Airfield No. 1. The dust was lifted by big U.S. transport planes landing from Saipan. The Americans were putting to use what they had come to Iwo to get, and the incoming planes were tokens of the approaching end of the hardest amphibious campaign in the Pacific. Iwo Jima was not yet secure, but for practical purposes the ugly, sulfurous, mean little island was theirs...
...declare that it is the role of the State to ensure the adequate exploitation of the great sources of energy-coal, electricity, oil-as well as of the chief means of transport by rail, sea and air. ... It is the State which must dispose of credit. . . ." (Applause from the Left...
Today A.T.C. is doing much of the transport work with Army crews. But 70-odd crews from United Airlines were still on the job last week, most of them making the fast A.T.C. run to Guam...
...dues to a union (the A.F. of L.'s Music Publishers' Contact Employees) and earn from $150 to $1,000 a week. With a trade jargon all their own, they classify themselves as "payolas" (the affluent and gift-bearing), "car men" (those with limousines to transport bandleaders) and "sitters" (who operate exclusively in night clubs). The "weepers," who are. looked on with contempt by their colleagues, appeal to a contact's sympathy...