Word: transportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entered aviation in 1926, and has been flying ever since. In his younger days, the captain once won an award as top dive-bomber pilot in the Navy. During the war he served overseas on aircraft carriers . . . with one tour of duty as director of Naval Air Transport Service. Since his arrival at Quonset Point in February 1948, his relations both with the local civilians and the civil service employees have been of the highest order. An example of his thoughtfulness and loyalty to his civil service employees occurred just before Christmas of 1948 when a disastrous fire swept...
Last week General V. I. Chuikov, Soviet commander in Germany, ordered restoration of "transport, trade and communications services" at 12:01 on Thursday morning of this week. Chuikov's order was repeated on the Moscow radio. At the same moment, the Western counter-blockade would...
Back from the wild blue yonder, thousands of veterans jumped into the air transport business after the war. All they needed to set themselves up as irregular nonscheduled airlines was a little capital, some flying know-how, and one or more surplus planes, which the War Assets Administration was eager to sell them cheap. Some of them crashed, and some went broke. But about no nonscheduled lines have been doing well enough with cargo and air-coach services to throw a scare into the big, scheduled airlines...
Like any good commissar, Dennis carried out Moscow's orders. But he was not too skillful as an executive officer and tactician. He tried, for example, to get Mike Quill, onetime devout party-liner, to throw the support of his C.I.O. Transport Workers Union behind Henry Wallace's presidential campaign. Quill refused. When...
...Gone!" Before the day, it had looked like a routine county council election. Laborite politicos were confident that victory was in the bag. Three years before, Labor had won 90 council seats out of 124, the Conservatives only 30. As the day wore on, party headquarters in Transport House began to worry. Worry soon turned into panic. By 4 p.m., Labor ran one seat ahead of the Conservatives. Only South London's staunchly Socialist Clapham had not been heard from. At 4:01 the phone rang. The party worker who answered it turned pale. "Clapham's gone...