Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bevin's plug for an imperial customs union warmed at least one Tory heart. When Arch-Imperialist Lord Beaverbrook, publisher of the Daily Express, heard of Bevin's remarks, he chuckled: "By God, I think I'll go right down to Transport House [Trade Union headquarters] and join the union...
Nobody had a full explanation for western Canada's worst train wreck.* A preliminary report, from Ottawa's Transport Board, said that No. 4 had the right of way, that the Minaki Special had come into Dugald too fast. But no one explained why Canadian railroads are still using old gaslit, wooden hand-me-downs...
Died. Roy A. Chadwick, 54, designer of the Lancaster, the R.A.F.'s highly successful World War II heavy bomber; in a take-off crash during a test of the Avro Tudor II, his design for a new long-range British transport; near Woodford, England...
Karachi had changed and grown since then, but it was still dirty, noisy and in all respects unlovely. Americans got to know the town during the war when it was a main air transport point...
...defines himself as a parlor wit who thinks of radio as a parlor instrument ("some homes got them next to toilets"). But he seems hard-pressed to transport the highball-and-cigaret intimacy of his friends' living rooms into the U.S. parlor. His cement-mixer voice strains with eagerness to wow the audience. And while most of his parodies and songs are funny, the jokes which string them together sometimes clank (sample: "As for personal habits ... I ain't got none...