Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...developed that Vaughan's crony, John Maragon, and two other representatives of the Verley Co. had managed to go to Europe on a business trip, during the period in which the freezers were being delivered, in an Army transport plane. The subcommittee's releases pointedly noted that on the return trip Maragon had attempted to smuggle expensive perfume oils into the country under his false declaration that it was champagne for the White House, and had never been prosecuted...
...with curiosity not unmixed with satisfaction the progressive weakening of the forces which his enemy is able to put into the field . . . Perched on the crumbling parapet of an ill-drained butt [a dugout for grouse-shooters], he cannot but contemplate with sardonic eye the scanty and dilapidated motor transport assembling at roadhead in the glen below him. The sun . . . no longer flashes from the coachwork of immaculate limousines backing and filling on the turf . . . The escort of dogs is more imperfectly disciplined. The unit has lost most of its auxiliaries-the pony men, the bearers of cameras and mackintoshes...
Down a runway at Toronto's Malton airport last week roared the first commercial jet transport to fly in North America. The silver and yellow "Jetliner" built by A. V. Roe Canada Ltd. took off, circled at 200 ft., then zoomed sharply to 13,000. An hour and ten minutes later Test Pilot James Orrell brought his aircraft in for a smooth landing in summer-heated bumpy air. "It was a piece of cake," he said happily. "She handled like a fighter. Terrific...
...World. At war's end, Jan Olechny was freed from the farm in Austria, was shunted from one D.P. camp to another. Finally he reached Naples. Last month his wife and son, who had located him through the Red Cross, sailed to Naples on the U.S. Army transport General Black...
Before boarding the transport in Naples harbor last week, Jan Olechny sold a few articles of clothing, bought some lemons as a gift for his family. Aboard ship an American officer told him Josepha and Riszard were eating lunch below desk. "I am sorry," he said, "you 11 have to wait." Obediently Jan sat down and waited...