Word: transporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sizable dent had been made in the housing shortage. But outside of statistics-minded Washington, the hopes of ordinary people to get the kind of place they want to live in were far down. In Manhattan, Communist-line Michael Quill, head of the C.I.O.'s Transport Workers Union, saw his chance to create unrest and political capital. He urged veterans to squat in boarded-up Fifth Avenue mansions, as the Commies had done in London...
Secret Ballot. The German boys run the club themselves. Sergeant Moriarty and his nine friends call themselves counselors. They provide transport, equipment, refreshments and other necessary items out of their own pockets. But from the first, Moriarty pounded home the point that the object of the club was to teach German boys the independent, democratic way of life. And they are learning it. First they elected temporary officers. G.I.s and counselors guided them. One of the first things the boys wanted to know was how the secret ballot system works. The temporary officers then drew up temporary rules. Rule No.11...
...impossible. What the hell! They can save a few souls here while they wait." As sailing day came & went, a few missionaries went to look wistfully at the Marine Lynx, still in the battle grey of a wartime transport. Others hopefully kept their bags packed, swapped rumors at the church teas and receptions given for them. The bon voyage mass meeting at San Francisco's Opera House ran off as scheduled; 3,700 turned out to hear Mayor Roger D. Lapham and TIME'S Editor Henry R. Luce wish them well in the Christian task ahead...
Even more attractive were the Pan Am promises based on the Republic Rainbow, a 46-passenger, 400-mile-an-hour-plus transport whose military prototype is now in the air (see cut): 5½-hour coast-to-coast service (best time now: almost ten hours); 2½-hour flights between New York and Miami (present time: 5½ hours). Pan Am does not expect to get the first of the six Rainbows ordered ($1,200,000 apiece) till late next year. But it may take the slow-moving CAB that long to answer Pan Am's shrewd request...
...Maritime Commission sadly reported that no one seemed to want the nation's No. 1 luxury liner, the S.S. America, very much. Finished too late (August 1940) to go into transatlantic service, she made only a few West Indies cruises before the Government converted her into a troop transport. As the West Point, she traveled some 500,000 miles with 350,000 servicemen...