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...moonless night last week off Korea's northeastern coast, a party of British commandos and U.S. marines put out in small boats from the fast transport Horace A, Bass. The Americans were serving with the 41st Royal Marine commandos, commanded by Lieut. Colonel Ferris Grant, a Londoner. The raiders' objective: the Communist east-coast rail line along which vital supplies were flowing from Vladivostok to Wonsan...
...believe there is a railway or a road in Russia on which one could travel at an average of more than 30 miles an hour. Lorries are either very ancient affairs or else ten-wheeled American trucks. There is no heavy road transport, or roads capable of taking it. It is quite clear that the Russian transport system is already strained to bursting point, without the added load of war traffic...
...Alexander Ranezay was roused from his bunk on the U.S. military transport General C. H. Muir. His wife packed; his daughters, Lydia, 21, and Erika, 10, dressed with special care. International Refugee Organization officials wanted the Ranezays to be all ready when the ship docked at 7 a.m. For 47-year-old Ranezay, once a Slovak farm manager, had been picked as the 1,000,000th refugee to be resettled by the I.R.O. since it began its work four years ago. He was I.R.O.'s 280,572nd displaced person accepted...
Next week, at a meeting of the International Air Transport Association in Nice, 54 international lines will be asked to approve the plan, agree on a rate. Even if there is no agreement, tourist flights by next spring are virtually assured. Pan Am, T.W.A. and BOAC are prepared to fly at the tourist rates, no matter what other I.A.T.A. members...
...plate roast beef dinner, Price Stabilizer Mike DiSalle had his try. The delegates obviously weren't interested in what he had to say. They chatted among themselves and paid so little attention that, at one point, DiSalle broke into his prepared speech and asked them to listen. The Transport Workers' bellicose Mike Quill finally quieted the crowd when he rose and threatened to throw out of the dining room the next "guest of the banquet" who uttered a sound. DiSalle then went on to say that "in an inflationary defense economy, the strong unions must be careful they...