Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Clark came to Vienna ten months ago, from the Italian front, he found the Russians already in full and resolute control. They had got over their wild initial spell of raping and looting, and were engaged in the orderly transport to Russia of $100 million worth of factory equipment and raw materials. They had swathed Vienna in red flags (mostly Nazi flags with swastikas removed), were feeding the Viennese less than 1,000 calories a day, flooding the country with worthless occupation marks, and were rapidly gaining an iron grip on Austrian economy...
...preoccupation. Pointing up the irony West Coast people saw in Herbert Hoover's food-hunting trek, a ragged, famished youngster in a Colombian cartoon begged for "a penny, madam, for the poor little European children who are so hungry!" Colombians, crimped by their ever-present transport problem, were forced to fly beef to their upland capital. At first they offered Hoover only coffee; later they considered relinquishing 8,000 tons of wheat promised by Canada. Ecuador, usually short on wheat, had a bumper rice crop; for 650,000 bags, which sell within Ecuador for $7 apiece wholesale, Hoover...
...Shillelagh. For once, the Government had a big shillelagh it could and, apparently, would use to break the strike and keep U.S. transport moving. At his press conference, Harry Truman's thin lips tightened when a reporter asked what he intended to do on June 15. He said he would use the Navy, War Shipping, the Army and the Coast Guard; nothing would be spared to keep the ships going...
...ship of sickness and tragedy. Babies were ill, their mothers panic-stricken, and with reason. Within 36 hours, four infants died at the Army's Fort Hamilton Station Hospital. In the next four days two more had died. (Still another, who had been on the Brazil, a transport which arrived the day before the Vance, died from apparently the same ailment...
...winter hedonists, was invaded last week by 8,000 teetotaling "messengers." Luxury hotels on the Miami bay-front were packed for the Southern Baptist Convention. They represented the second largest† U.S. Protestant group (5,668,000 members). Their 100th anniversary meeting, postponed by last year's transport crisis, commemorated the split in 1845 of Southern and Northern Baptists over slavery...