Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face in aviation returned to a new job last week. Twangy, folksy Cyrus Rowlett Smith, 45, who left American Airlines three years ago to help establish the Air Transport Command, settled himself into the newly created job of chairman of the board of American. Vice President Ralph Shepard Damon, who has done the big share of running the line in "C.R.'s" absence, moved up to the presidency to take the place of retiring Insurance Man Alexander Nesbit Kemp...
Despite pious rumor, there are atheists in foxholes. So writes Transport Chaplain Lewis A. Myers in the current Arkansas Baptist: "Foxholes are not valid agents for making Christians, for destroying atheists or for driving men to God. ... If you desire a man to come out of a foxhole with something, you had better send him in with something...
Edward Kennedy, quick-triggered Associated Pressman who jumped the gun on the German surrender, arrived in Manhattan on an Army transport and in the Army's doghouse, declared: "I would do it again. The war was over. . . . The people had a right to know...
...transmits his orders directly to his field commanders. Wedemeyer informs McClure and McClure's network supervises the execution. But in action, Chinese officers are solely responsible. The result is that U.S. officers train and fight alongside Chinese infantrymen and artillerists. The Americans have set up veterinary, signal corps, transport and general staff schools to teach U.S. techniques. These institutions were conceived by General Stilwell and were in existence when Wedemeyer arrived. But Wedemeyer welded them into a cohesive whole. Seldom had the traditional friendship of two great peoples been so tested and proved on the battlefields...
...staff general, Wedemeyer tirelessly studied China's beaten, war-weary, underfed, ill-armed, wretchedly conscripted army of 300 divisions which had to be whipped into shape. It was backed by a blockaded, withered economy producing some 10,000 tons of steel a year, supported by a transport system lacking a single effective railway, and equipped with less than 5,000 obsolescent trucks. It held a front almost 1,500 miles long. Its weapons were an international hodgepodge. But the invincible fact was that somehow this massive army existed, and somehow it fought...