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...Ground. The Army, with the most Negroes, offered the most resistance. During World War II, it had kept most Negroes in transport, quartermaster, and housekeeping duties. Its experience with two Negro combat divisions had been unsatisfactory. It stubbornly clung to segregation, and argued that it had to; most of its bases are in the South...
Bonney took his post here in July, 1946. He has served in the Navy 35 years, graduating from the Naval Academy in 1918. Bonney's wartime service put him in command of an attack transport and a submarine squadron in the Pacific. In 1945 the Captain became Deputy Commander of Admiral Nimitz's Service Squadron...
...dissident elements in Bolivia-Socialists, Communists, Trotskyites, members of the pro-fascist Movement of National Revolution-dropped mutual hates to back the teachers. Rail, bank, factory and transport unions joined in to make it a general strike...
...miles up, where the air is thin and cold, a fearful wind zigzags round the earth at 200 m.p.h. Meteorologists call it the "jet stream." Last week, at Asbury Park, N.J., a convention of the International Air Transport Association considered the jet stream and the effect it will have on the operation of the high-flying airliners of the future...
...only 293 to boost the government's overall parliamentary majority to seven. The Socialists got what temporary comfort they could from this, but the Tories did not leave them in peace for long. This week the government squeezed through by 279 to 278 in a division on the Transport Ministry appropriation...