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...Russians do their best to keep Albania from any unsettling contact with the free world that might make it even harder to keep the country in line. Each month an Italian ship brings mail in, an Albanian ship takes mail out. There are no passengers either way. All other transport, by air and sea, is Russian...
When wartime priorities strained the world's air transport to the limit, we took another tack. Photographs of the pages in a whole issue of TIME took up less plane space than a paperbacked detective story. So we flew to distant points film positives of our pages, from which local presses could print copies for quick delivery to civilians and to allied forces on nearby fronts. At war's peak, we were printing some 834,000 overseas copies at 19 places for distribution to 180 countries and possessions. Among the 19: Bogotá, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Buenos...
London unhappily resigned itself to A.I.O.C.'s expropriation; it would try to make sure of vital oil from Iran by control of its transport and marketing. If the flow of oil is menaced by violent outbreaks, London let it be known that British warships can reach Iran's oil ports within 48 hours' sailing time...
Next day, the debate moved to Labor Party headquarters in London's Transport House. On the ninth floor sat Labor's National Executive Committee. By a vote of 22-to-4, the committee urged the country's rank & file Socialists to back Attlee against Bevan. On the second floor sat the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. Among the union bosses, Bevan had more support but not enough to win. By 13 votes to 6 (of 32 members, 13 absent), the Council stood by Attlee...
Bodkin, in one meaning, was "a person wedged in between two others when there was room for two or two and a half at the most." It might be highly useful "in this age of crowded transport and of rush-hour massing of bodies...