Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Learning that a seat was available on an Army transport plane, the correspondents chose the New York Times's Milton Bracker to convey their uncensored stories to Panama, where they could be filed. The next day Dozier found that he could get out on an Army plane to Panama himself. With Robert Shellaby, of the Christian Science Monitor, he "crawled, ran and sneaked to the embassy and, by jeep and bus, guarded by two soldiers, dashed to the airport...
...show up for work. A glance at Izvestia told Magidoff why. In a long letter to the editors, she roundly denounced him as a U.S. spy. In his files, she wrote, she had found queries from McGraw-Hill, asking for information on underground factories, atomic developments and air transport. She said that the replies had gone by diplomatic pouch, to avoid the censors...
Meantime the snapping at Allied flanks in the city went on unceasingly. When a Soviet fighter plane dived into a British transport (15 died, including the fighter pilot), the Russians had apologized in jigtime, then as quickly reversed themselves. Wrote Red Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky in an outstandingly insulting note: attempts to blame the Russian pilot for the crash "can be interpreted by me only as defamation apparently following provocative aims." Robertson's reply was surprisingly mild; he asked for a joint investigation...
...meet the outcry against differences in rates between different sections of the country,* the government ordered the Board of Transport Commissioners to look into the possibility of equalizing rates. It would take about a year, and in the end it would probably mean little, but on paper it looked nice. Furthermore, the survey might help to quiet Liberals from the Maritimes and the West who had joined the Opposition in protesting the new charges...
...evening last week a shimmering four-engined transport touched down at an airport outside Frankfurt, Germany. Seven weary but grinning Chicagoans stepped out into a 35-mile-an-hour wind that felt like Michigan Avenue in November. "A little University of Chicago" in Germany had come to set up shop...