Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Italy surrendered last September, three high British officers were glumly killing time in a prisoner-of-war camp near Florence. Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd had been captured late in 1940, when his transport was forced down in Sicily. Lieut. Generals Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor and Philip Neame, V.C., had been crudely kidnapped by a Nazi motorcycle patrol which stumbled across them in a stalled truck convoy near Derna, Libya, on a spring night...
German accounts later told of new air mines-explosive containers trailed by steel cables from planes at high altitude and dropped to burst amid the bomber squadrons. Old weapons and young pilots were also thrown into the struggle. Obsolete Stukas (dive bombers), even a clumsy twin-engined transport milled about, trying to confuse the U.S. formations. The German radio said that Reich Marshal Hermann Goring had ordered into battle "youngsters who never before had engaged in combat...
Only five months after its start, Al Mukhtar Min (Selections From) has reached its wartime circulation ceiling-125,000 copies. With adequate paper supplies, printing equipment and transport facilities, Reader's Digest men think it might have reached to 200,000 in a few more months. In Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia the natives swamp their dealers for this newest Digest foreign venture...
...Transport Command, U.S. commercial airlines are dispatching transports on overseas flights at the rate of one plane an hour...
...Major General T. M. Robins, Army engineer, read the first Somervell order. Said he: a few barges from U.S. inland waters could easily transport ten times the oil to Canada with one-tenth the cost and effort. When no one paid any attention to his comments, General Robins followed orders and went to work...