Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe by the finesse of procedure, or terms of reference, or all the paraphernalia which may go with it." Bevin added that he as Foreign Secretary of Britain had been helpless because he had "neither coal nor goods nor credit." The immediate problems of Europe were "food, coal, transport, houses, opportunities for people to have a decent life...
...service flyer could buy a DC-3 for $25,000), aviation had finally come of age. The airplane had long been a versatile beast of burden in roadless Alaska. But as late as 1939 northern flying had been a primitive business with no fields capable of accommodating a modern transport, no directional radio navigation aids, little radio communication...
...Inland transport. 5. Steel mills...
...antithesis of his predecessor. The son of a wealthy Denver Republican, he played football at Phillips Academy at Andover, learned law at Yale, served an exploratory year as a legal secretary with SEC. During the war he flew a Washington desk as a commander in the Naval Air Transport Service, came back to Denver with an itch to give the city a liberal, non-partisan mayoralty administration...
...reason or another, announced the Ministry for Home Affairs and Transport, 1,241 other Japanese had attempted suicide by the same method during the last year; 970 were successful...