Word: transportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With added planes, however, and ideal weather conditions, it would not be impossible to lay down 2,000 tons of food a day on Berlin's Tempelhof and Gatow airfields. In July 1945, the U.S. Air Transport Command flew 71,000 tons of cargo over the Hump into China...
Ball Bearings & Bottle Bombs. It was the first action for the new force. Created since November's rioting, it was divided into eight super-precincts, which covered all France, and equipped with rapid transport and radio jeeps. It had special military powers and was especially designed to provide a fast, hard-hitting counter to any pattern of scattered, simultaneous outbreaks that the Communists, or anyone else, might devise. At Bergougnan the Compagnie de Sécurité received a baptism of sulphuric acid, but it won a swift, decisive victory...
...tons of food, spews out one billion gallons of sewage and over 8,000 tons of garbage. In winter it needs 20 million gallons of fuel oil. Six million people travel daily on its 237 miles of subway and elevated lines, 1½% million on its surface transport lines. Some 400,000 commuters stream into Manhattan daily from the suburbs of Long Island, New Jersey, Westchester County and Connecticut-a train arrives in its stations every 50 seconds, day & night. Its Departments of Health and Sanitation must eternally anticipate the threat of epidemics...
...officers and men who have lived and worked in Churchill, the problems of large-scale Arctic war still seem almost insurmountable. Even if the cold could be licked, the difficulties of transport and supply would remain, and an Arctic army, like any other, must travel on its stomach. Dr. Omond M. Solandt, head of Canada's Defense Research Board, put it this way: "Today everybody knows it's impossible to fight a war in the Arctic, but we have to prepare for the man who doesn't know it's impossible...
During nearly three years as Britain's rulers, Britain's Labor Party has given up great chunks of empire-India, Burma, Ceylon. At home it has nationalized transport, coal, electric power, aviation, overseas communication and the Bank of England. It has also raised taxes and cut rations, and its popularity has taken a definite, although possibly not decisive, slump. Last week the Labor Party met at Scarborough in its annual conference to take stock of its accomplishments and chart its further aims. From Scarborough TIME Senior Editor Max Ways reported...