Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Transport Command station near London this week, Private Ramon Rodriguez slept all alone. It was the only way the Army could be sure that the rest of the base personnel would get any sleep. Rodriguez snores to wake the dead...
...building up the superior and better-equipped armies which we threw into the Battle of France. By the time they got to the Siegfried Line they were spread thin and were spending materiel almost as fast as it reached the front. Now our reserves of men, arms and transport must come thousands of miles from an America that is fighting another war in the Pacific. Germany, on the other hand, has withdrawn almost to her own frontiers and can switch reserves from one front to another with comparative speed...
...Army's globe-girdling Air Transport Command is going to cash in on its system of far-flung routes, in most cases exclusively its own. Beginning this week, it will sell rides to qualified civilians on a limited basis. The qualifications: the trips must be in the interests of the U.S., must not displace any military traffic, will not be allowed where commercial facilities are available. Fares will average between 12? and 13? a mile, substantially higher (as required by an Army ruling) than the standard commercial rate for overseas flying...
This month her valiant career ended. The Navy announced that in supporting the landings at Ormoc Dec. 7, the converted destroyer-transport Ward, commanded by Lieut. Richard E. Farwell, was struck by aerial torpedoes along with the 1,450-ton destroyer Mohan, had to be abandoned and sunk. They were the 48th and 49th U.S. destroyers lost in World...
...holds 90 patents, including one on Indiana's widely advertised oil, Iso-Vis. Standard has cashed in on these and other processes Wilson had a hand in finding. Wilson has cashed in too. His salary of $60,000 a year, as president of Pan American Petroleum and Transport Co., Indiana subsidiary, would now be $100,000. As boss of the third biggest oil company in the U.S., Wilson takes a gloomy but realistic view of wartime U.S. oil policy. Said he: "A country that has only about 15% of the world's possible oil land...