Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allied blockade, air attack, further losses on the front must inevitably lower Germany's already reduced industrial production, burden and snarl its already strained transport system. In contrast to industry, Germany's food situation is better than it was last year. The 1943 grain harvest in Europe was good, and the Nazis meant every word of their boast that Germany would eat if all Europe had to starve. The German bread ration was recently increased. Yet the black market continues to flourish. One of Germany's sorest shortages is in housing. Nazi figures admit that...
Lieut. General William S. Knudsen. Director of Production in the Office of the Under Secretary of War, was president of General Motors. Brigadier General Cyrus R. Smith of the Air Transport Command was president of American Airlines. Brigadier General Thomas B. Wilson, now chief of transport in an overseas theater, was chairman of Transcontinental & Western...
...Colonel "Randy" Lovelace is the big, mild, ex-Mayo-clinic man who last July made the world's longest parachute jump 40,200 feet). Colonel Lovelace announced that by next year the U.S. will have 100,000 airplane ambulance beds. Latest released figures on air ambulance transport were given by Lieut. Colonel Richard Meiling of the Air Surgeon's Office: since the autumn of 1942, the Air Transport Command has evacuated, by air, 125,000 patients. In one area, the 12th Air Force moved 25,000 sick & wounded with only one death en route...
...Helena steamed into her first major engagement. She was part of the task force ordered to intercept the strong Jap force moving to reinforce their units on Guadalcanal. In the Battle of Cape Esperance, the U.S. force turned back the Japs, sank four cruisers, four destroyers and a transport. The Helena cashed in then on her gunners...
...Wages for a "41-hour" work day for a single employe; transport charges for taking an employe's wife to a maternity ward; $1.39 for shipping another employe...