Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high spirits, Franklin Roosevelt boarded the big C-54 Douglas transport at Cairo. He: 1) stopped off for 48 hours at Carthage to confer with General Dwight D. Eisenhower; 2) landed at Malta to present a "tribute to this island and to all the people. . . ."; 3) appeared on a parade ground in Sicily to look over U.S. troops...
Bevin's big, powerful Transport and General Workers Union once again condemned Morrison's release of Sir Oswald. Other unions were equally restive. British unions are an important segment of the Labor Party; withdrawal of their support of Morrison would divide the Party, might wreck it if Morrison continued as a Party leader...
...first cannon-equipped Mitchells made a flaming kill of a Jap air transport as it was landing, with one shot from 1,500 yards. Other attacks have sunk barges, ripped up gun emplacements, shot up destroyers so that they ceased firing. Until they get a better, airmen will go on swearing that the cannon-toting B-25 is the hardest hitter...
...outbreak of flu. The disease was mild but it spread like wildfire. Thousands of offices worked at half-staff, the Belgian Ambassador was sick abed, 100 London Bus Company employes and a dozen M.P.s stayed home. And in other parts of Britain the fever raged-the Bristol transport services and many war plants were partially paralyzed. The last report (for the week ending Nov. 27), from cities comprising half Britain's population, showed 375 deaths, more than three times the influenza deaths for the previous week. Britain's Ministry of Health was not sufficiently impressed to term...
...Redheaded Bill Hippie had bad luck. He had boarded his transport and was taking a shower to rid himself of the putrid smell of the dead, when the ship unexpectedly pulled out. He finally got a message to Rear Admiral Howard Kingman, a battleship division commander, who sent a catapult plane. It took Hippie's stories, a day late, back to Tarawa, whence they were planed to Pearl Harbor for radioing...