Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tories, who inherited worse problems than they expected after six years of Socialism, have moved uncertainly to denationalize road transport, and not at all to denationalize steel. Muddle is still a favorite British headline word, as crisis is in the French press. Yet "improvement," warned the Economist, "will not be secured by making [Mr. Churchill] the scapegoat for everything . . . When he looks at those around him-and opposite him [on the Labor benches]-he needs no immodesty to conclude that at 77 he still has more to contribute to British government than almost any other...
Hairpin Code. He first worked as a spy during World War II, when he slipped word of German transport movements to the Communist Party. Soon, with his brother Martin and others, he was dealing in Swedish military secrets and conspiring directly with agents working out of the Soviet embassy in Stockholm. Through switches in Soviet contact men and changes in his own jobs Enbom kept the secrets flowing to Moscow. There were elaborate cloak & dagger arrangements -code messages that looked like simple shopping lists, a rusty tin can hidden in an isolated spot as a "letterbox," hairpins hung...
...turned over to U.S. Lines Corp. last week in the middle of a new squall over the cost of the ship. The line had paid $28 million, the Government $42 million in a subsidy, giving it the right to requisition the ship in an emergency as a troop transport. But for weeks Comptroller General Lindsay Warren has been complaining that the subsidy was $10 million too high, and that the line's ante should be raised...
...mile road linking Nicaragua's Atlantic and Pacific coasts. It was a great victory for Nicaraguan Dictato Tacho Somoza, convalescing in Boston after a major abdominal operation. "I am awfully happy," said Tacho. "Nicaragua is the best friend the U.S. has-and I love that road. It can transport troops across the isthmus if the Panama Canal should be blown...
...Navy got what it wanted: a fast ship that can be quickly converted into a troop transport capable of carrying 14,000 men halfway around the world, nonstop. The United States' reinforced decks are strong enough to hold gun platforms; her hull is divided into watertight compartments whose doors can be closed automatically to seal off damage...