Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More important even than the Road was the 2,000-mile pipeline that went with it. Already the line, which carries both gasoline and oil, had been laid far into Burma. It had had steady use, had paid off at the fighting fronts with release of planes and transport from fuel chores. It now crossed three rivers, must still cross several more. Once completed, it would also free Hump flyers and the Road's truckers into China for transport of guns, munitions and food. Thousands of tons of ammunition and artillery await the day in India's stockpiles...
This week Boeing proudly let out the 130,000-lb. secret. The new ship is Boeing's postwar superairliner, the "Strato-cruiser," in a military transport version. Boeing says the Stratocruiser can fly 100 passengers, in the plushiest kind of comfort, from New York to London in eleven hours; from New York to Los Angeles in seven. Clairmont Leroy Egtvedt, Boeing's conservative board chairman, published the startling figures...
...spring of 1942 a group of sailors were lolling on the gun deck of a transport at Samoa. One of them picked up a battered, coverless novel and began to read it aloud...
...Their transport sailed to New Zealand, and the men scoured the bookstores in vain. The transport sailed on. was sunk in the Solomons. Machinist's Mate Third Class Lloyd Powers, one of the men on the gun deck, got back to the U.S. last January, made another unsuccessful search for a copy of the book. When he landed briefly in the San Diego Naval Hospital, he pestered Librarian Jeanette Barry to try. She appealed for help in Publishers' Weekly, but still no copy turned...
Then he emplaned for the U.S. in the silver-painted transport known as "Uncle Joe's Chariot." Few men had been stouter friends of China...