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...sign in a few days a "precontract" for the construction of a $600 million auto plant in Russia. Half of the plant will be purchased from Fiat. If the contract goes through, the plant will be opened in 1970 and will eventually turn out 500,000 modified Fiat 124s annually...
Tunner's plan would use only 50 C-124s in the lift. Each would make at least four runs daily. Thus a minimum of 5,000 tons of supplies each day would wing into the city. That is 3,000 tons less than at the peak of the '48 lift. But in the old lift, 65% of the cargo was coal-and now West Berlin has stockpiled enough coal to last more than a year...
UNDER the Kennedy program of increased flexibility, the Air Force will increase its airlift capacity-now one of the weakest links in U.S. defenses-by calling up an unannounced number of reserve squadrons flying C-124s, and Air National Guard squadrons equipped with C-97s. In addition, the Air Force will keep in service some C-118s that were scheduled for deactivation. By squeezing more mileage out of these aging, prop-driven planes, the Air Force will boost its airlift capability by 25%, will be able to fly two divisions to Europe in about two weeks. Looking ahead...
...Moorman commanding, can move forward from the Philippines' Clark Air Force Base and begin flying its sweeps from five Thai fields in F-100s on only twelve hours' notice. The Thirteenth has supplies already packed and labeled in order of loading priority-ready for freighting on C-124s and C-130s...
...from which the U.S. can mount its defense of Southeast Asia. At the big naval base at Subic Bay and at Clark Field, supplies predestined for Southeast Asian forward bases are already packed and labeled, loaded aboard the trucks that will roll them into the yawning mouths of C-124s and C-130s if the whistle blows...
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