Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appreciate your work." Few hours earlier, in a suite at the Wardman Park Hotel, tall, greying Ambassador Alberto Tarchiani had made his bow to the U.S. Just 55 hours out of Rome, via a U.S. Army transport, he had called in the U.S. press even before inspecting his embassy. "I am an old journalist myself," he said to the 21 newsmen. "I appreciate your work very much...
...month before Dday, flying over 1,000 sorties a day, Allied air forces began to prepare the invasion ground-smashing enemy airfields, railroad yards, transport, coastal gun positions, communications and bridges from The Netherlands to the Pyrenees...
...Stepping from his four-engine transport at Mexico City's airport, Mr. Stettinius read a statement prepared by an aide: "The United States looks upon Mexico as a good "neighbor, a strong upholder of democratic traditions in this hemisphere, and a country we are proud to call our own." When "our own" popped out, Mr. Stettinius gasped, read bravely on. One of his functionaries hastily tried to repair the damage to Mexican pride, asked newsmen to make it read: "our friend...
Every 15 'minutes a plane operated by the Army's indefatigable Air Transport Command lumbers free of the earth and begins a trans-Pacific flight. In one recent eight-day period these planes hauled 18.4 million lbs. of cargo over A.T.C.'s 42,000-mile Pacific airways. Passenger and cargo volume is three times that of a year...
...future profit on those sums, Gulf Oil and North American executives at last week's ceremony needed all the postwar vision they could muster. Their mile-long airstrips, built to handle planes of domestic transport size, were deep in snow. The day's chief speaker, CAA's Deputy Administrator Charles I. Stanton, was scheduled to fly to a dramatic, ribbon-cutting landing at the field. Grounded by the snowstorm, he arrived by train and auto hours late for the dedication...