Word: transporting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the Fence? Attlee stuck doggedly to his decision not to hold an election this year. A straw poll recently conducted by Labor's Transport House had indicated that if the election were held now, Labor would get a majority of not more than 40 seats in the House of Commons. This margin is too thin to withstand severe crises, Laborites think. They believe that by next spring they will be either over the fence or crumpled up in front of it. Said one: "we're determined to have a damned good shot at getting out of this...
Phillips Brooks House will transport a record number of 800 Boston youngsters to Saturday's varsity football game...
Clincher. In Brighton, England, transport experts from 20 nations, meeting to standardize their obsolete timetables for more efficient, punctual travel, held up their meeting 20 minutes waiting for latecomers...
...make her dramatic, last-minute plea for more money and arms for Nationalist China last December, Madame Chiang Kai-shek asked the U.S. for a favor: she needed suitable air transport between Nanking and Washington. The U.S. Government fixed her up handsomely. The Military Air Transport Service brought her to California in a Navy plane, flew her and her party (a general, a maid, two secretaries) the rest of the way in the old presidential DC-4, the Sacred...
Fiddlesticks. In Brisbane, Australia, Minister for Transport J. E. Duggan announced the results of a survey: only 2% of Australian longshoremen swear, while 29.8% of Members of Parliament use cuss words...