Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eagerly waiting until there should be enough transport to take them home too were Comrade Le Du's 99,999 fellow captives...
Without Oxygen. U.S. Senators, who usually get no better than a No. 3 priority, heard the official version of Blaze's ride last week. The Air Transport Command's able Major General Harold L. George did his frank best by laying before the Senate Military Affairs Subcommittee a carefully detailed account of the animal's voyage by Army aircraft from England to California. Senators noted that the air arms of both the Army and Marine Corps had done their best by Elliott...
Without Question. How did Blaze get the No. 1 priority which crowded three No. 3 priority servicemen off the A.T.C. transport at Memphis, a short while later? Well, the President's daughter and No. 2 official White House hostess (who was all ready to go off to Yalta-see Foreign-Relations) had fixed that. It was simple. She called the A.T.C.'s priority officer, and asked him if A.T.C. would take the beast out to Elliott's new bride, Cinemactress Faye Emerson, in Hollywood...
Anna Boettiger never once mentioned a priority. But nothing moves on A.T.C. without a priority, and Colonel Ray W. Ireland, who took her call, knew what to do. Blaze got his No. 1-and before the week was out, the hardworking, globe-girdling Air Transport Command was right in the middle of the kind of news it does not like to make...
...night had been seven years long, but now China could see the first glow of dawn. Brigadier General William H. Tunner's transport planes were flashing over the Hump, one every two and a half minutes. Brigadier General Lewis A. Pick's trucks were thundering up the newly opened Ledo-Burma Road, past banners reading "Welcome Honorable Truck Convoy," "Welcome Material Help...