Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cyprus' union with Greece in the near future. Every new troop transport arriving at Nicosia last week underlined the basic reason-namely, that Britain feels it must have a secure eastern Mediterranean base from which to safeguard its Middle East interests...
Away All Boats (Universal) continues Hollywood's reverent chronicling of World War II. This time the cameras are trained with documentary fidelity on the U.S.S. Belinda, an attack transport manned by the customary horde of landlubbers who have to be whipped into shape by a handful of old salts. All of the characters are so simply drawn that it might have been more convenient to hang labels about their necks: Jeff Chandler is the Good...
...factory chimneys thrust their way above the quiet countryside to give the railway a new excuse for existence. Soon a few forlorn trains, carrying in all an average of four passengers a day, were all that was left of the once profitable road. Last year the British Transport Commission, which has done in many a small railroad since nationalization began, closed down the Bluebell and Primrose...
Then, poring over documents on the line's past history, Spinster Bessemer found just what she needed: an Act of Parliament, passed when the railway was built in 1877, requiring the owners to run at least four trains daily. "They," said Miss Bessemer scornfully of the Transport Commission, "have got to keep the law just like everyone else." Fire in her eyes, she enlisted the aid of her M.P., a Tory who answers to the name of Tufton Beamish...
...Bluebell and Primrose, keeping to its required four trips a day, found itself again with only five passengers. Never one to give up, Miss Bessemer began a new crusade-to electrify the Bluebell and Primrose and connect it with the main line to London. Just as determinedly, the Transport Commission set to work preparing a new bill to repeal the 1877 act and stop the Bluebell and Primrose forever...