Word: troop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...technical problem of sending cars through Chicago can be solved. Railroads have always sent freight cars through, sent many a troop train through during the war. The biggest problem has been finding the passenger traffic to make it pay. Before the war, too few transcontinental passengers a day wanted to travel through Chicago without stopping. Now, under Young's needling, railroads have found that traffic has increased enough...
...contracted for, at a cost of $93 million. At the end of this month, the Commission will open bids for the fastest merchant vessels ever built in the U.S.: two 670-ft., 28-knot, 543-passenger liners. It is also busy reconverting the P-2s, originally built as Navy troop carriers, for private shippers. Their cabins, in which the beds neatly fold into the bulkhead (see cut), will carry tourists more comfortably-and probably more cheaply-than prewar ships...
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...
...trucemakers-Government General Chang Chun, Communist General Chou Enlai, U.S. General of the Army George Catlett Marshall-had agreed on three points: 1) all hostilities would cease immediately; 2) all troop movements would also cease, except in Manchuria and south of the Yangtze, where Government sovereignty is unchallenged; 3) all lines of communications would be cleared. A commission composed of Government, Communist and U.S. representatives promptly left for Peiping to execute the agreement...
...home, the uproar was augmented by understandably yearning relatives, and by others of more distant and dubious kin ship. The leftist National Maritime Union called a nationwide one-day strike to dramatize a pious demand for more troop ships. The Communist Daily Worker, in a front-page editorial, explained that the strike was called "in the name of the American people to get [G.I. Joe] home and prevent his use in imperialist intervention...