Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nominal unification of the armed forces had not stilled interservice bitterness, and no one knew it better than Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. A month ago, he decided that the air transport services of the Air Force and the Navy should be merged. He bluntly ordered the respective Secretaries to find out "how"-not whether-it should be done...
...Bound from the Azores to Bermuda, a four-engined British South American Airways transport radioed an 11 p.m. "All's well." Then silence. At week's end, despite the greatest peacetime air search of the Atlantic, no vestige of the plane had been found. Aboard were a crew of six and 21 passengers, including Australian-born, battle-greyed Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, 52, who commanded the Allied tactical air forces at the invasion of Normandy...
Liberal Fanatic. Into this assemblage of heroes came Major Gregory Harris, a Harvard man, with a year's experience in the State Department, no combat flying, precise features, and a small mustache. He had asked to be transferred from the Air Transport Command because he believed in the war, and in fighting it "violently." He also believed that we could not rationally fight Fascism abroad and not fight against the first steps toward it at home-race prejudice, for example...
...counted. If the time ever came-and it might come before the 1948 campaign was over -when Phil Murray felt it necessary to boot these left-wingers out of the C.I.O., he would have a black & white record to use against the likes of Harry Bridges, the Transport Workers' Mike Quill and the United Electrical Workers' Al Fitzgerald...
Shrinking Corridor. The Communists thought they might win the battle for Manchuria in the next six months. A midwinter Communist offensive had narrowed the government's already slender corridor; Mukden and Changchun lay under virtual siege. The railway south of Peiping was broken again; transport planes from Peiping last week began to evacuate government civilian employees from Mukden and Changchun. But Nationalist troops hung on grimly inside the Manchurian corridor. Said their commander in Mukden: "We must hold Manchuria...