Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...severe daylight thunderstorm over western Wisconsin caught a two-engine Northwest Airlines transport plane, shot lightning around it, crippled it, brought it down against a bluff of the Mississippi River near Winona, Minn. The dead: 37 (there were no survivors). Total fatalities in airline and chartered passenger planes in 1948 to date...
Union shop stewards furiously protested; the company stood its ground in view of "the large amount of dishonesty and pilfering of rationed commodities." At that, 150 Keevil workers went on strike, refused to arbitrate until Bryant was reinstated, appealed for support to Transport and General Workers' Union headquarters. No Keevil provisions reached the shops, frustrated housewives bit their nails, and clever Jack Bryant sat at home with his six kids, snapping his lighter...
...both cases the servicemen had found the broadcasts more entertaining than disturbing. Both Sally and Rose had almost been forgotten by everyone. When silver-haired Mildred Gillars stepped from an Army transport plane in Washington at week's end (see cut), the only real point of interest was why the Justice Department had suddenly decided to make up for two years' lost time...
...show of a living artist. The rest, all done withinć the past 20 years, had been brought from Yugoslavia by his brother Petar. The hit of the Metropolitan show was a 5½ ton Pieta done in the muscular, dramatically contorted tradition of Michelangelo, and too big to transport to Pittsfield. The Berkshire exhibition emphasized Městrović's carved wooden bas-reliefs and single figures whose intensity made Hungarian Sculptor de Strobl's vaster ideas look blown up (see below...
...July 19 issue of TIME carries a story on the fatal crash in Mexico of an aircraft chartered by the joint U.S.-Mexican commission fighting aftosa (hoof & mouth disease) . . . Certain statements have caused embarrassment to the Military Air Transport Service and, unfortunately, are not substantiated by the facts as we know them...