Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trumans' first weekend in the White House came the President's 92-year-old mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, and his 55-year-old sister, Miss Mary Truman. Harry Truman had sent the big presidential transport plane (which carried Franklin Roosevelt to & from his transatlantic conferences), his naval aide and a Secret Service man to Grandview, near Kansas City, to bring Mrs. Truman to Washington for Mother...
Arthur Bell, who claims the supernatural quality of agility (i.e., of being able to transport himself anywhere in an instant by an act of his own will), was not stopped. While his attorneys appealed his conviction, he planned a bigger enterprise - Christ's Church of the Golden Rule...
Twelve administrative sections will oversee every phase of German life. A transport section will supervise all traffic systems, and (with the Navy) handle port and coastal operations. (Although occupying an inland zone, the U.S. forces will have access to the North Sea port of Bremen.) The political section, presumably to be under the State Department's Robert Murphy, will direct both foreign and domestic affairs. Food, agriculture and forestry, price control and rationing, public works and utilities, internal and foreign trade, industrial conversion and liquidation will be under a huge economics section. Brigadier General ("Wild Bill") Donovan...
...Much Can the JapsTake? By the time the invasion is ready, Allied air power should have smashed Japan's industry and transport, and she should be thoroughly shriveled by combined air and naval blockade. She might not be able or willing to keep on fighting. When a reporter asked Admiral Nimitz last week whether he believed that invasion would,, in the end, be necessary, Nimitz replied: "I don't know. I don't know how much the Japs can take. They have seen what has happened in Europe, the wreckage of Germany. They know what...
...committee wants the facts on whether Pan Am is doing a better job than the domestic lines, he said that it could get a true comparison from the Army's Air Transport Command. Many of its globe-girdling routes are being flown by both Pan Am and domestic lines. On these figures Juan Trippe is perfectly willing to rest his case...