Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Industry lacked raw materials and transport. But production was picking up. Coal mines were operating at a third of capacity. On the farms the harvest was good-a ray of hope for a nation that expects a hungry winter. Everywhere the people-farmers, workers, professionals, politicians-busily organized into cooperatives, unions, guilds, blocs, all woven into a Government-controlled...
After a reception and a 90-minute drive back to Washington, the President was off on a five-day holiday. It looked for a time as if rainy, foggy weather would hold him back, but at 7 p.m. his "Sacred Cow" transport plane put him down 795 miles away, in front of a cheering crowd at Blytheville...
Probably not since the days of the first transatlantic flyers had an air hop started with such a swash of publicity. The Army Air Transport Command, inaugurating weekly round-the-world flights, took along a reporter from all three press associations...
...supposed to say on such an occasion-quite the opposite. Cried he: "If the appeal to you . . . is national savings for the nationalization of the mines, my counsel to you is to reject it. If the appeal is national savings for a state-owned merchant marine or inland transport system or medical service, I would turn it down. I believe that nationalization is a fatal policy, fatal to enterprise, fatal to efficiency, fatal to the independent spirit of the worker...
...each homebound transport an information crew (one officer, six enlisted men) mingled with passengers, encouraging conversations and questions. They were well primed on the workings of the G.I. Bill of Rights. And they toted information kits which included copies of TIME, the World Almanac, and Army orientation pamphlets...