Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destroyers from the Middle East, the big carrier Midway and the heavy cruiser Los Angeles from the West Coast. U.S. fighters rolled onto the ready line on Formosa, and Tactical Air Force sent out from the states a reinforcing squadron along with air cargo support planes from the Military Transport Service-all meaningful public warning that the U.S. means business...
...poured into London and the industrial Midlands since the war, and complained of their un-English habits of nursing babies in public, living six and eight to a room, dancing and singing in the streets. But the Negroes, mostly Jamaicans, readily found jobs as laborers, furnacemen in foundries, dishwashers, transport workers-all the jobs that, as a Ministry of Labor official explained, "our people find too hot and dusty." A few of the newcomers did well enough to buy small terrace houses and flashy autos...
Cocktails for Control. Such sport was this that next day began with a mob of 1,500 burning and looting a bus terminal, beating up drivers and running off with another 30 buses. When the police did not interfere, they stormed other terminals with Molotov cocktails. Mexico City transport was in chaos. People jammed the old streetcars, riding atop the roofs, crowded into trucks at 1? per ride. In vain Mexico City's bus drivers appealed to the students to stop. Finally, the 13 transport unions took full-page ads saying what all knew: "These young delinquents have proclaimed...
...London Observer's Kenneth Tynan crashed through with "banal." U.S. audiences may have a chance to judge for themselves before long. The play is scheduled to move to London later this month, but at week's end Producer Henry Sherek was mulling "most flattering offers" to transport The Elder Statesman direct from Edinburgh to Broadway...
...This business of equality can be carried too far," grumbled one agitated undertaker. Commented Le Monde: "It may seem too cruel to force those in extremis who have never traveled third class or used the public transport services or had to go steerage to go to their last destination in circumstances which nothing in their lifetime has prepared them for, and to inflict on them a dying so completely contrary to their living. It would be charity to accustom them to equality at a slightly earlier date in their lives...