Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With few exceptions, the British press opposes the blackout. Argued Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard: "We shall return to the Dark Ages. . . . The blackout will clog our transport and put fresh brakes on industrial production. ... In 1941 industrial accidents among men rose by 42% over 1938; among women by 192%. . . .In 1940 many citizens accepted the blackout as a grim necessity. . . . 1940 is as remote as 1840 for everybody -except the Government departments which imposed the blackout and on this matter have suffered a mental blackout ever since...
...military use is made of transport facilities...
...Navy transport Alchiba is back at sea again, eight months after officially being reported lost. Her log book is an epic of seamanship, brilliant salvage work and heroism...
...Currency" on one side and the Four Freedoms (in English) on the reverse. Not till the invasion of Sicily began were the words "Lira" and "Series 1943," "Issued in Italy" printed on the bills. Seven tons (about 30,000,000 lira to the ton) were then loaded in two transport planes and flown abroad...
...other two-Pan American Airways and American Export Airlines-were the first U.S. lines to fly foreign routes and naturally would not hanker for too much competition. But United is next to the largest U.S. domestic flyer, has flown international routes only since the Army's Air Transport Command gave it some war business...