Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henceforth the railway system which handles more passengers than any other in the world would be owned & operated, along with all other public transport, by the British government. For about $4 billion worth of shares, railway shareholders received an equal amount of new gilt-edged securities bearing 3% interest guaranteed by the government; the change was not as bad as many had feared...
British Labor promptly hit back. Arthur Deakin, Ernie Bevin's successor as head of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,250,000 members), called on British Labor to oust Communists from their high councils*: "The activities of the Communists within the trade unions are mainly directed to propagating their political faith. . . . We cannot afford to allow the Communists' attempted infiltration into and domination of the trade unions to succeed...
...remaining princely states in India, fewer than 50 have more than half a million people. All the princely states except big Hyderabad (16,000,000) have surrendered control of their defense, communications and transport to the central government...
Even before the war, the Big Five no longer dominated the merchandising field. Piggly Wiggly, Sears, Roebuck and others had moved in. Now Pan American and United Air Lines finished cracking the transport monopoly once enjoyed by the Big Five's Matson steamship line. More visitors were arriving in Hawaii by air than by sea. But the Big Five still supplies most of the direction and driving power for the islands' economy...
Last week, Manhattan gallerygoers saw a series of 14 war paintings by Lawrence which were by far his best work yet. During the war he had been a petty officer in the Coast Guard aboard a troop transport, had used anything and everything he had seen as his subject: departure, return, alerts, men in bunks, cooks cooking ("The cooks might not like my paintings, but they appreciated that I was painting a cook"). The pictures he exhibited last week were patterned with the crude simplicity of a poster; his people angular, always distorted; his colors somber, often murky...