Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these blows weren't enough, the Labor Party's National Executive peremptorily challenged the Bevanite weekly Tribune for an "unwarranted, irresponsible and scurrilous attack" on right-wing Laborite Arthur Deakin, big boss of the 1,300,000-man Transport & General Workers Union. This, said the Executive, was a specific violation of a party injunction that forbids Laborite leaders to attack one another in public. The Tribune's misbehavior could, if the Labor Executive felt like pressing the issue, lead to the expulsion from the party of the Tribune's three Labor M.P. editors (among them...
PIGGYBACK TRANSPORT of truck trailers on railroad flatcars is working so well that Santa Fe and Chicago & North Western, which previously offered only limited service, will expand it greatly. Santa Fe is adding a Chicago-Kansas City run and a Los Angeles-San Diego service; Chicago & North Western will extend its Chicago-Milwaukee run to Minneapolis...
...Goony Bird," the DC-3, which is 95 ft. *This tactic worked admirably during World War II in a similar situation on Ascension Island, involving sooty terns. Obviously convinced that one good tern deserves another, the birds multiplied so rapidly that they nearly took over Ascension, until the Air Transport Command began a program of egg-snatching...
...impassive Buddha of last spring's McCarthy hearings, promised to stay on the job as staff director of Senator Joe McCarthy's investigating subcommittee "unless I am voted out." Last week Carr changed his mind and resigned to take a job with New York's Associated Transport, Inc. (protecting its 2,000 trucks from routine hijacking and pilferage...
...Shame, shame!" bellowed outraged Bevanites. "Withdraw! Let Nye reply!" Burly Arthur Deakin, chief of the Transport and General Workers Union and Bevan's frequent antagonist, lumbered to his feet to demand that Donnelly be allowed to continue. Bevan's pent-up anger and frustration burst. "Shut up," he hissed savagely at Deakin. "Shut up yourself!" yelled Deakin. "You big bully!" cried Bevan. "You're afraid of him," snapped Deakin. "Bully yourself!"-accompanying this last thrust by what one newspaper called "a gesture not usually used in polite society...