Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real, the river's ice through which the transport inched, the towers of Manhattan like a backdrop in the haze. There were the pier, the music, the unbelievable feeling of being home again. There was the luxury of the warm, green-cushioned train, talking its metallic monologue across the wintry miles of home. At Camp Shanks, N.Y., there were white sheets, steaks and cold, country-fresh milk. Like gamblers fingering impossible mountains of winnings, the 1,300 soldiers could see and feel it all. But their minds could not yet quite accept this fairy-tale return...
...again at week's end, still against only token opposition. On the east, there was stiff local resistance, but if the Jap had been hoping to move major forces south from Vigan for a flank attack, his hopes were dampened by the sinking of 45 luggers and a transport trying to land supplies off San Fernando. Sealing of the Baguio road by U.S. forces further protected this flank...
...Harry Magnuson has twice gone into ecstasies over the railroad recording. Company 3 waits with bated breath for a hearing. Bob Lang claims to have a better imitation of that head-on collision on the New Haven line. On his report Fritzy Arsulich advises converting all freight cars into transport planes for complete service...
After the outbreak of the war, Comdr. Tully was Gunnery Officer of the Navy transport U.S.S. Harry Lee, which had the distinction of serving as training ship for Guadalcanal's famed First Marine Division. Subsequent transfers took him to the transport U.S.S. Calvert, and then to the U.S.S. Charles J. Badger. On the latter ship, a 2100 ton destroyer, he served as Gunnery Officer in the spring of 1943, with the rank of lieutenant...
...multilateral school* of 1980 will have some 3,000 pupils and there will be umpteen sides and umpteen wings in each. Its buildings will dwarf the countryside for miles around. It will have its own aerodrome and pupils will arrive by communal transport planes and even by private 'jeep' planes from all points of the compass...