Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MANHATTAN, on the grounds that four garage mechanics had been fired, the Transport Workers' hardheaded Mike Quill cut off transportation for 1,250,000 New York bus riders. Ignoring a no-strike pledge he made only two weeks ago, and blandly passing over the original excuse for the strike, Quill threatened to keep the boys out until he got them an extra 21? an hour, a 40-hour week and a whole string of pension and welfare concessions...
...fuzzy world of Japan's new democracy it seemed like a Shinto nightmare. Two thousand hard-jawed Japanese, in jackboots and military khaki, clomped down the gangplank of the transport that had brought them from prison camps in Siberia to their home in Dai Nippon. They clenched fists, bawled the Internationale and the Song of the Kolkhoz...
...blockade tightened, raw sugar crammed the warehouses and overflowed into covered tennis courts, gymnasiums-anywhere it could be stored until there were ships to transport it. The pineapples were ripe and soon would be rotting in the fields. Unemployment was sharply up; several small businesses had folded. Tourist trade, almost as important to Hawaii as pineapple and sugar...
...seek expansion of trade between the Western and Eastern zones. The Ministers formally agreed that the New York deal lifting the Berlin blockade should remain in force, and that it was each occupation commander's responsibility "to ensure the normal functioning and utilization of rail, water and road transport" between the Western and Eastern zones and Berlin...
...slight, wiry Lewis C. ("Squeaky") Burwell was washed out of the Army's aviation cadet training program by his superior, Claire Chennault. When World War II came, stubborn Squeaky Burwell got his chance to fly in combat and as a transport pilot in China. One day he found among his passengers General Claire Chennault. "Brother," said Burwell, "you better get out. It's going to be a rough ride...