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Word: transporte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ploesti. For the Allied cause as a whole, Ploesti's capture would have been a meatier triumph six months ago than it was last week. Germany is already so parched for oil that its motorized transport is grinding to a stop on all fronts. Allied air attacks on Ploesti have reduced its rate of annual output from 5,500,000 metric tons to 2,000,000. Nevertheless Ploesti in August was still providing Germany with about one-third of its total natural and synthetic oil, and Allied airmen still bombed Ploesti as a prime target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Oil Treatment | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...Enemy aircraft destroyed-2,378 aloft, 1,167 aground. Enemy tanks destroyed or captured-1,300; transport vehicles knocked out-20,000; guns seized or destroyed-2,000 (there would be many more of each at final counting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF FRANCE: Appomattox, 1944 | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...enemy's intentions were clear and frightening: the second column swung west to Chiyang-in the rear of the Chinese troops which had been massed to check the drive. With almost no motor transport, the Chinese lacked the mobility of the Japs. It was doubtful that they could prevent a junction between the enemy's Shaoyang and Chiyang columns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ASIA: Drive to the South | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

Inside her prim decor lurks a spry libido. She favors doctors and dentists, not because she needs pills or teeth, but because "they are so good-looking and so young." On her recent first trip to Manhattan, she surprised her transport pilot with her ready ear for smoking-car subtleties. So far she has said nothing in public except "H-m-m-m-m-m-m-m." This is delivered in the tone of a cordial spinster to the man under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Judy for Punch | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...Lights, Green Troops. On May 17 Stilwell's top assistant, Brigadier General Frank Merrill, with Chinese and a few American veterans, completed a 20-day march over mountains and through jungles. They pounced on the Myitkyina airstrip, two miles south of the town, held it while gliders and transport planes piled in with a division of fresh Chinese troops. Unfortunately, they were too fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ASIA: Stars for Stilwell | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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