Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is such a scarcity of Army transport that we walk or take a horse and carriage everywhere. The telephones work but nobody is ever at home, and offices are disorganized. Your correspondents meet, compare notes, write cables, miss appointments, hunt each other and generally go nuts in this city so full of intrigue and excitement, rumors and history...
...principal problem, after that of command, was that of supply. Britain's Minister of War Transport, Lord Leathers, and the U.S. War Shipping administrator, Vice Admiral Emory S. Land, were high on the list of advisers. Land knows how to build ships and Leathers has demonstrated a miraculous capacity to fill them. Together the Lord and the sea dog pored over routes and cargoes...
...arrived in Canada for his eighth wartime conference with Franklin Roosevelt. He had crossed on a transport crammed with furloughed G.I.s. The singing ended with God Save the King and the train pulled out. Next day it ground to a stop on a siding at Wolfe's Cove, at Quebec. Franklin Roosevelt was there, sitting in an open car, his eyes shaded by a big Panama. The sky was cloudless, a paler blue than the blue St. Lawrence hard...
...Work in shipyards continued at breakneck speed, with emphasis on tankers, landing craft and big, fast transports. At Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. an 18,000-ton, all-welded attack transport slid into the Singing River, the 54th ship to be christened at Pascagoula, Miss, in 56 months...
...Henry Kaiser's shipyards in the Northwest went back to a seven-day week. The reason: inability to obtain 10,000 additional workers needed to keep pace with tanker and transport building schedules. But at the Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Shipyard at Baltimore, the keel was laid for a sleek, 9,902-ton freighter intended for the postwar services of the American Export Lines to Mediterranean and Indian ports...