Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Troop Carrier Group loaded 45 to 50 of the men into each of its C-46s, flew them over central China's great blue lakes to reoccupy Nanking, where Japan's puppets had reigned. It was all done in 22 days. In the same period, the Air Transport Command, loading 80 Chinese into each of its larger C-54s, carried 26,000 men of the Ninety-fourth Army to Shanghai. Soon the Ninety-fourth was on the wing again. This time it was bound for Peiping. At the same time, the Ninety-second Army was flown to Peiping...
...Queen Mary will stay in the U.S. transport service, but Elizabeth and Aquitania had other obligations, which should be understood by U.S. troops. British and Canadian soldiers want to be sped home, too. The Combined Chiefs of Staff, reassigning the two ships, decided it was time to give them a chance...
...House of Commons, the new Labor Government proposed a five-year extension of the tight wartime controls on labor, prices, transport, building. Tories Gad-sirred that such stuff would leave Parliament "nothing more than a Reichstag." At home recovering from a sore throat, Winston Churchill croaked of "drastic departures from our . . . way of life. . . ." The bright beacon on Big Ben's tower burned late that night, telling home-going Britons that their Parliament was still at work. Members stoked themselves with snacks and drinks. After midnight came the inevitable Labor victory: 306 votes...
...royal excursion to the Hejaz, King Ibn Saud finally put to use the C-47 transport plane which had come as a gift from Franklin Roosevelt...
...riled most tempers in Montreal. There the International Air Transport Association, with representatives of 44 airlines of 24 nations, was soberly discussing fare agreements to prevent cutthroat rate wars on international routes. They had just agreed to consult each other in fixing fares when Pan Am's bombshell exploded, disrupting discussions for a day. The baffled airmen felt that their cozy talk of fare fixing-and most thought Pan Am's new fare far too low-were just words in the teeth of a gale...