Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ships can now enter Liverpool harbor in any weather, avoiding expensive delays at the Mersey's mouth. Britain's War Transport Ministry will soon set up radars at London and Southampton. Eventually it hopes to extend the system to all of Britain's fog-plagued harbors...
Shaw & Larkin. One day a friend told him about Bernard Shaw: "the cleverest Irishman the world knows, Sean. A wit of wonder. A godsend to men who try to think." Another day he listened to Jim Larkin talk at Liberty Hall in Dublin-about the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, the "red flag rather than the green banner...
...Mohammedan, Buddhist or Labor. All my life I've been in the struggle to see things improved, which is what everyone else is trying to do too, isn't it?" His latest play, Red Roses for Me, produced in suburban London in February, is about the Dublin transport strike of 1913. Said the Daily Express: "Glorious...
Arthur W. McCain, 52, for 32 years a commercial and foreign banker (chiefly financing commercial-aviation manufacturing and transport), became president of Chase National Bank, succeeding H. Donald Campbell, who became vice chairman of the board. Now the world's second-biggest bank will be run by a triumvirate which includes Board Chairman Winthrop W. Aldrich...
...cries Author Reynolds, "for a magic carpet of infinite dimensions that could transport all the leaking drains and condemned closets from all the slums of the Empire and heap them in Downing Street [as an] object lesson. . . !" Viewed from his standpoint of the philosopher-sanitarian, the course of world history is essentially intestinal...