Word: 47s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balance Your Budget." Today the memories of the struggle dissolve into melancholy. In the fifth month of the post-blockade "peace," Berlin is a city deserted by power, prosperity and purpose. At Tempelhof airport, where 15 big airlift transports landed every hour night & day, a few senile C-47s snooze in the autumn sunlight. On the grass between the runways, once jammed with quartermaster trucks and mobile canteens for hungry flyers, there sit stacks...
...last month the city heard that the well might soon run dry. The Air Force had decided that the Pacific Northwest might be vulnerable to bombing in event of war with Russia, and had specified that the new B-47s must be built at Boeing's branch plant in Wichita, Kans...
Meanwhile, an airlift was organized to fly supplies from the capital to the disaster zone. A Shell Oil Co. plane crashed near Ambato killing 34 rescuers. From the Canal Zone, U.S. C-47s flew in medical supplies and a Red Cross team. "We have not lost our courage," said Galo Plaza. "Neither Ambato nor Ecuador shall cry any more, but begin to work." Ambato, he said, would be rebuilt as a modern, quakeproof city...
...lumbering C-82, also known as the "Flying Boxcar," flew into Berlin's Tempelhof airfield, carrying five tons of steel wool and textiles. The American crew had some coffee, got a weather briefing for the return flight to Wiesbaden. Exactly a year before, the first wave of C-47s ("Gooney birds," to U.S. airmen) .had flown a cargo of milk, flour and medicine into Tempelhof. Since then, in 235,314 flights, the airlift had carried 1,943,655.9 tons of supplies into besieged Berlin...
...Flying Tiger's route runs from California to the Pacific Northwest, then to the Twin Cities, Des Moines, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, New York and north into Maine. Prescott also intended to carry on, for the time being, with his six DC-4s and three C-47s. "The decision gives me a lot of new markets," he said, "but I've got to test them to see if they will be profitable...