Word: airlifting
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...112th day of the great airlift, while Russian artillery continued firing into the grey skies near Berlin by way of "target practice," the Western powers had an announcement for Berlin's people. The airlift was doing so well that Western Berlin's food rations would be boosted about 15%, from an average of 1,800 to 2,040 calories a day. That meant more cereal, fat, sugar, and-for the first time since war's end-cheese...
...Changchun. From Chinhsien, supplied by rail from North China and by sea through the port of Hulutao, the Nationalists had flung an airbridge to Mukden. Chinhsien's fall left Mukden dependent for supplies on Yingkow (which freezes over in November), and after that on the long and hazardous airlift from Peiping and Tientsin...
This worked all right through the summer, but now the rainy season is approaching; floods from the hills of Hebron will soon make the airlift impossible. Ben-Gurion met last week with his chiefs and decided to act. Having ordered picked Israeli troops to the Negeb front, the government (as required by the Bernadotte ruling) informed U.N. truce officials that they would move a convoy over the disputed highway between the stipulated hours. When the convoy moved down the highway, the Egyptians (as the Israelis had foreseen) opened fire. The second U.N. truce came to a blazing...
Last month they went to Guatemala City for strategy talks with Arévalo and Nicaraguan exile leaders. Last week they made their first move. Guatemalan-registered air transports began landing in Costa Rica to take aboard the Legion's khaki-clad recruits. Once again, the airlift was on; again it bypassed Tacho's wall. This time the recruits and gear were headed for an encampment at Poptum, in the remote Guatemalan province of El Peten. Even though the move was no surprise this time, Tacho could do nothing about it: Arevalo's air force was bigger...
...exploration work in the wilderness everything had to be flown in, from beef to bulldozers. At first, air freight cost Hollinger 73? a pound. By last April Jules Timmins had his own airlift operating from Seven Islands to the airstrip at Knob Lake. This season it carried 750 tons, at an average cost of 7? a pound...