Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edition of Who's Who, Schine lists himself as a former "Lieutenant, Army Transport Service." His A.T.S. service in 1946-47 was as a civilian employee with the "simulated rank" of lieutenant...
...major finished his report and snapped: "Enjoy it." But the people refused to enjoy it. They set up a new chant: "We want the revolution!" Leaf lets flooded the streets. Transport workers went on strike. Unionized cabs raced the streets, trailing slogans that read: "We Do Not Want Corrupt Politicians Again...
Part of this is due to the outmoded law under which the ICC operates. One of its original purposes was to protect the public against monopolistic railroad practices. But cars, trucks and planes have brought keen competition to the transport industry, and so have drastically reduced the monopoly dangers and the reason for ICC. Instead of withering away, the ICC is now devoting much of its time to protecting the railroads from themselves. For example, 25% of the time at rate hearings is spent on the effect that an increase will have on the public, 75% on whether it will...
...Johnson had it better; he merely became a clerk in the British civil service. When the enlistment officer came around to see Abu Zed, the wily old chief saw a chance to get rid of his greatest nuisance. He sent Gadein off to the Buna Service Corps, a native transport outfit attached to the British army in North Africa...
...work because of religious scruples) stuffed the monkeys into bamboo cages and carried them on shoulder poles into Lucknow. The train hauled them 260 miles to New Delhi. There, 1,000 specimens carefully chosen for health and size (4 to 8 Ibs. apiece) were collected. Then a four-engine transport flew them, with a full-time attendant to feed and water them three times a day, the 4,000 miles to London. Next, another plane and another attendant took them 3,000 miles to New York's Idlewild Airport and trucks carried them 700 miles to Okatie Farms...