Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every sense. . . . This must be as obvious in Washington as it is in Nanking." A hint that other U.S. help might be on the way came last week in a dispatch from Nanking describing negotiations for purchase by China of an undisclosed amount of munitions and 600 surplus transport planes from...
...news in island transport was being written by airlines rather than by the once-dominant Matson Navigation Co. Pan American carried 30,000 people to & from the mainland in the first nine months of 1947; United Airlines, 14,000 in the six months since it began to fly to the islands...
Whitehall Circle. Some of Cripps's best Labor friends became members of his official family. Cripps supervises four ministries directly: Board of Trade, Supply, Transport, and Fuel & Power. Of the four ministers only Alfred Barnes, Minister of Transport, is not a socialist intellectual. One of the founders of the cooperative movement, Barnes is more the old-style labor leader. Cripps's closest friend and adviser is 46-year-old George Strauss, tall and swarthy Minister of Supply. Like Cripps, he is an upper-class leftist. Son of a wealthy metal merchant, Strauss was one of the faithful...
...overture to Sunday's battle was fierce. A Communist-decreed national maritime walkout tied up all French ports for 48 hours; a transport strike in Paris paralyzed the Métro. As Premier Paul Ramadier's Government tried to break the strike, Paris' gentle autumn air grew heavy with menace. Armed, steel-helmeted guards stood outside barricaded subway entrances and bus depots. The Cocos (Paris argot for Communists) accused the Socialists of fomenting the strike, then absurdly belabored the Government for strikebreaking. (After De Gaulle's victory, the Communists prepared to call off the strike...
...Rate. At a conference of the International Air Transport Association, in Rio de Janeiro, representatives of the international airlines of 40 countries agreed to ask their governments' permission to 1) raise fares on the North Atlantic route by $25 to $350 (½? a mile) next year; 2) sell special round-trip excursion tickets at 25% above the one-way price; 3) allow 10% discounts on round trips, 90% discounts for infants who are under two years...