Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What has Mr. Attlee's Government done so far that we haven't been doing? Last week it passed its bill nationalizing all inland transport. Well, some 20 years ago our House of Commons passed a bill nationalizing one of our transcontinental railways [Canadian National, which has a total of 32,103 track miles, also has holdings in steamships, hotels and summer resorts] and since then we've nationalized our air transport, both inland and overseas...
...business: "I wish to state simply and directly that I do not agree with" two of the convention's resolutions: 1) for withdrawing the President's special representative at the Vatican; 2) opposing the Supreme Court's decision permitting the use of public funds to transport children to Roman Catholic parochial schools. Stassen's frankness earned mild applause from his fellow Baptists-and perhaps some approving nods from Roman Catholic voters who had looked suspiciously at Stassen's cozy interview with Old Joe Stalin...
...evening session. The big clock over the Speaker's chair in the House of Commons was a few ticks short of 9:30. The Government's most extensive socialist measure yet-nationalization of almost all of Britain's privately owned inland transport-was in the bag, and everybody knew...
...amendment. He mustered only 31 of the Opposition (against the Government's 346). But he stuck to his popgun and in the next three hours forced 15 more voting divisions, kept the members trudging to & from the voting lobbies. (It was a trying night for one-legged Transport Minister Alfred Barnes, but he made all 16 round trips on his cork...
...minor incident highlighted a serious problem last week. Liberian airfield workers just could not grasp the U.S. logic in shutting down a nice strategic base like Roberts Field, on the west bulge of Africa. They missed their regular pay. The Army had buttoned up the big Air Transport base at the end of March and left a handful of G.I. guards to hold off the exuberant jungle and its prowlers from the runways and buildings...