Word: 47s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small percentage of their cattle out of the drifts, and many distant herds had not eaten for a week after the storm. As a desperate expedient, the Keystone Ranch near Karval had Army bombers try dropping baled hay to some of its cattle. After that seven Army C-47s began hay-bombing on a larger scale. As the cold weather continued, airlines passengers reported seeing dead cattle, horses and antelope dotting the frozen prairies...
...boom had been touched off last fall when Aerophile U.S. Ambassador Adolf A. Berle Jr. fetched two dozen brand-new U.S. Army C-47s (military version of the Douglas DC-3) south to be sold as surplus property. Most of the planes went to big carriers like Cruzeiro and Panair, whose routes along the coast and across the heartland cover three times the mileage of any U.S. domestic airline. But others were bought by rugged individualists who quickly formed companies and sold stock, sometimes before getting franchises...
...time the thudding of their 120 h.p. engines came back across the ice. Five hours later a radio message from Commander Baird reported that the "snows" were 36 miles out. In the 80 or more days they would be gone, they would be supplied by four Dakota Transports (C-47s) and seven sturdy, single-engined Noorduyn Norsemen...
...GOVERNMENT TREND TOWARD SCRAPPING THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF AIRCRAFT THAT CANNOT BE SOLD AT PRESENT ESTABLISHED PRICES IS ABSOLUTELY WRONG AND MUST BE STOPPED : c-45s, c-46s, c-47s, c-60s, c-78s, BT-13s, BEECHCRAFT, AT-6s AND ALL TRAINERS...
...union hiring halls, high schools, other aircraft plants. Last week labor and management were still equally enthusiastic. Said O. G. Lompe, a Douglas jig builder and C.I.O. shop steward, "Sure, we like the class. They give us the straight facts. ..." Said Supervisor Robert Kennedy, in charge of building C-47s: "Yes sir, I learned a helluva lot." Said President Donald Douglas: "Most grievances grow from misunderstanding. When we learn how to analyze and understand the other fellow and his problems, most of our troubles and grievances will disappear...