Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japanese Government shall transport prisoners of war and civilian internees to places of safety, as directed, where they can quickly be placed aboard Allied transports...
...point-discharge system he branded a "mathematical monstrosity." He charged that the Army could transport and supply no more than 3,000,000 at the Japanese front, not the 7,000,000-man Army as presently called...
Without waiting for Prime Minister Attlee to return from Potsdam, Professor Harold J. Laski, Labor Party chairman, rushed into an arresting description of the Labor Government's aims. First the Bank of England will be nationalized (see BUSINESS). Then the Labor Government will tackle coal, power, steel and transport. Said Laski: "You can't plan economically without control of the central bank. A government which is not responsible for the operation of credit is not master in his own house...
...Falalop was small, even for a sandspit, but a 3,300-ft. airstrip was carved out of it. Marine fighter planes moved in to protect the $20 billion worth of ships against Jap raiders. Navy planes were landed there as carrier battle replacements, and a transport-plane shuttle service to Guam and Peleliu was started...
...Transport. The rail profits, which began to slip in 1943 when the roads moved into the excess-profits brackets, were still going slowly down. The Interstate Commerce Commission reported that in the first five months profits of all Class I roads were down to $439,677,038 from...