Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...southern column captured the major airfield two miles south of the ene my base. While bearded, dirty shock troops cleared the field of obstacles, the code "cafeteria lunch" flashed to Mer rill's headquarters. By the time the field was cleared, the first gliders and transport planes arrived with fresh Chinese troops, piled in reinforcements to carry the battle northward through Myitkyina's back door...
...supremacy too. Major General John ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, tactical air commander in Italy, boasted that his planes had knocked out rail communication so completely that no through trains had moved from the Po Valley to the Gustav line since March 24; the Germans had to rely on truck transport, chiefly at night, over Highway No. 7 -the Via Appia-and Highway No. 6-Via Casilina...
...night before, a bill to merge Eire's transport system had come up for its second reading. The opposition parties (which altogether-but they are seldom all together-have 71 seats to the 67 of De Valera's Fianna Fail) asked postponement until an investigating committee could complete a report on ugly rumors of fat profits in transport stocks. The committee wanted to know how speculators got hold of confidential information, supposedly known only to high Government officials. Brusquely De Valera rejected the suggestion, but on a vote he lost, 64-to-63. Next day an astonished Dail...
...duck a slambang, winner-take-all fight. Fighting had been his meat & drink when he rose from farmhand to be an unpaid union secretary, then a big-time Laborite, organizer of the 1926 General Strike, and founder of Britain's biggest independent union, the powerful (850,000 members) Transport and General Workers...
Left. By the late Leslie Howard, stage & screen star: to his widow, son and daughter, an estate of $251,000; to Violette Cunnington, his secretary, his Beverly Hills house. Miss Cunnington died six months before the actor was lost in a Lisbon-to-London transport plane, reportedly shot down by the Nazis...