Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Europe's grain fields lacked tools and transport; drought and locusts have blighted crops in Argentina, Africa, India. Even Canada's great prairies-from which the U.S. had borrowed at times-harvested one-fourth less wheat last year...
...than Minsk used before the war. But few Minsk streets are lighted: enough iron for lamp posts, wire for circuits and bulbs for lighting are not to be had. Even public buildings are dark. Though Minsk has power to burn, factories that might consume it cannot get building materials, transport or machines...
Over Yenan, which had hitherto loudly denied any official contact with Moscow, circled Soviet transport planes. To the capital of China's Communists they brought cargoes of medical supplies, two Russian doctors and a tall, youthful Chinese, Mao Yung-fo, second son of Communist Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
Bishop Thomas Tien, cardinal-designate, of Tsingtao, China, and two noncoms from Brooklyn made a striking picture of international amity (see cut) when a troop transport arrived in San Diego from the Far East. The noncoms were going home at last; the bishop was bound for Rome and investiture as China's first cardinal...
...Bermuda. British and American representatives to the three-week-old air conference reached broad agreement. The U.S. gave in to British demands that minimum fares on North Atlantic routes be fixed by regional conference of the International Air Transport Association (an organization of 44 airlines of 24 nations), subject to periodic review by the U.S. and British Governments. In return, the British gave up their attempt to limit the number of trips to be flown by U.S. airlines, dropped all opposition to the "fifth freedom of the air"-i.e., the right of one nation's airlines to pick...