Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Redeployment was well ahead of schedule and still gaining speed. Speediest of all was air transport. Last week the Army Air Forces gave out some eye-popping statistics of history's biggest air passenger movement: in a 72-day period up to mid-July, 125,370 military personnel had been flown from the European and Mediterranean theaters to the U.S. They had come in 3,425 heavy bombers and about 600 Air Transport Command planes. The Army thought that virtually all the wounded would be home in a week...
...Europe Trieste was a meaningful word. In Trieste the U.S. and Britain had at last said to the Red sea, swirling up from Yugoslavia: no further (TIME, June 4, June 18). Last week there was trouble again in Trieste. Its transport and public services were tied up by a general strike touched off by the arrest during the past fortnight of 50 persons (including the editor of the local Communist newspaper). The charge: violating military security. A second strike, postponed by trade unionists at the request of the Allied authorities, threatened. Cried the Belgrade Radio: "AntiFascist workers have been arrested...
...desired end was to get the British Empire's air lines into efficient competition with the fast moving U.S. lines. But at the Commonwealth Air Transport Council in London last week, the delegates squabbled over the means...
Beginning a new assignment in the Air Transport Command, as he finished his autobiography, Major La Farge was sure at last that he saw a new world of reality ahead for him. He was sure he had said goodbye forever to the un-Grotonian Groton Boy who had long been uncomfortable in both an old school tie and an open-necked shirt...
Hingham's 277th and last hull, the fast destroyer transport Francovich, left the ways last month. By mid-August the yard will be through. Last week most of its heavy machinery was gone, and so were most of its people: from a peak of 23,882, employment had dropped to 4,959. Soon only a caretaking staff would be left...