Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are other elementary needs. Clothing is desperately short; raw cotton is needed for the surviving textile plants. Transport has to be repaired: river and coastal shipping is down to 100,000 tons from the prewar 1,500,000; railway coverage has shrunk to a fourth of the prewar meager 16,000 miles. Broken dikes must be mended, whole cities rehoused, chronic inflation checked...
Nevertheless, Bevin argued that, elections or no, the Poles in Anders' army should go home. Little by little Anders got the idea. Anders must depend on British transport facilities. If the general did not cooperate, he might find it even harder to rejoin his troops in Italy than to get a hotel room in London...
Under this scheme of organizing the news logically and conveniently many a department has disappeared or been absorbed by another after serving its purpose. Thus Transport became part of Business & Finance, and Crime subsided into National Affairs. World's Fairs folded when the need for it ended, and Animals dispersed to the departments (Science, National Affairs, etc.) they made news...
...Manhattan the International Air Transport Association last week ended ten days of wrangling over temporary new minimum fares on North Atlantic air routes. It might have saved itself the trouble. The new rates, which must be approved by the U.S., British, Canadian and Swedish Governments, were only a smitch under the old high rates...
...medical section, commanded by Captain R. H. Draeger, hopes that none of the test animals will be killed outright. Said Draeger: "We want radiation sick animals, but not radiation-dead animals."* After the blast, the goats, pigs and rats will be collected and rushed to the U.S.S. Burleson, a transport equipped to house them. There, medics will study the effect upon them of the deadly gamma rays...