Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied armies called them "displaced persons" or D.P.s, tried only to get them out of the way. A few officers hurriedly detailed, a few doctors and nurses scrounged supply and transport for them as best they could. Nobody had been prepared for this handicap of unexpectedly rapid conquest. In the emergency the army built compounds or used former German camps to house the hordes. One UNRRA team was on the scene, a few more were expected-but the teams had neither food nor transport...
...every Viennese was willing to die in a Nazi delaying action. The Russians reported risings of anti-Nazis within the city. Transport workers refused to unload trains. There were reports that assassins had killed Vienna's defender, tough SS General Sepp Dietrich, trusted commander of Hitler's elite bodyguard troops...
...ships were pounding Japanese-held sections of Okinawa's shore when the red-balled planes flashed in to attack. From a small landing boat TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod watched a twin-engined Jap bomber sneak over a hillside and head into the fleet, apparently picking out a transport near Sherrod's craft as its intended victim. Sherrod radioed...
Says a TIME correspondent who has seen the Dodge dynamo in action: "I saw her restore order in the midst of a hundred Greek Red Cross workers who wanted higher pay and persuade a British brigadier to put all his transport at her disposal to carry food to a village above the snow line ... all in twenty minutes...
...Mexico City's Central Airport a crowd of 15,000 wildly cheered the landing of a shiny, reconverted Douglas DC-3. The big transport had just made the first flight over Mexico's newest airline-Aerovias Braniff...