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Word: transport (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into Vienna last week as a Hungarian refugee came Communist John Santo, once an officer of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union, who sailed from the U.S. in 1949 to escape deportation. Before he departed for Hungary, where he became a government official, Santo had hurled a final diatribe: "Rulers" are riding the American people to the profit of Wall Street, using "labor lackeys and traitor agents" to "turn back the tide of history." Escaping Hungary Santo told New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Barrett McGurn that he hoped for "asylum in my own country -America" where he would "take my chances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: The Huddled Masses | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...shot of slivovitz, coffee spiked with brandy and a warm bed were on hand for every Hungarian who made it. Austrian hospitality was limitless, but Austrian housing and transport were fast becoming inadequate. By week's end an estimated 80,000 desperate Hungarians -80,000 witnesses against Russian Communism-had crossed the border to freedom. And they were still coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: FLIGHT OUT OF HUNGARY: FROM TERROR TO LIBERTY | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...plated gadgets. Mystic River Sales has a junior fire engine, "The Firebird" ($500), that a child can drive at 5 m.p.h., operating a 1½-gallon pressure water tank that squirts water 25 ft. The Charles Wm. Doepke Mfg. Co. has an electric locomotive, "The Yardbird" ($225), that can transport a young engineer from room to room on an eight-inch gauge track. F.A.O. Schwarz has a wooden stockade ($75) with corner peephole boxes through which young pioneers can see the "attacking enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Electronic Age of Toys | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Several high army officials in the Pentagon have expressed the "warmest possible praise" for the attack on U.S. war transport facilities made in the latest Reporter magazine by Edward L. Katzenbach, Jr., associate director of the defense studies program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Officers Hail Katzenbach Article | 12/1/1956 | See Source »

...editor believed that Katzenbach's article "might well have motivated" Defense Secretary Wilson's statement that present air force transport facilities are adequate. The Reporter has received no unfavorable comment on the piece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Officers Hail Katzenbach Article | 12/1/1956 | See Source »

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