Word: airlifts
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...Twice the Assembly refused to ratify Rhee's choice for Prime Minister, amiable George Paik, a Protestant mission college president who had been Education Minister before the war. The resentment against Paik and his sponsor stemmed partly from the fact that both had rated an airlift escape from Seoul last June, while many ordinary Assemblymen had to stay behind and hide...
...these copies to newsstands and subscribers as quickly as possible, our traffic department had rearranged all of its schedules. Copies from our printing plants in Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles were to go to the most distant points by special airlift. For example, copies for Spokane would leave the Chicago plant at 9 p.m., arrive in Spokane via Northwest Airlines plane at 9:44 a.m. Thursday, be sped by special truck to newsstand distribution centers, and go on sale at the newsstands before noon...
...power in Korea. Besides her carrier-based fighters, Britain had thrown in two patrol squadrons of Sunderland flying boats. A squadron of Australian Mustangs had been operating in Korea since the early days of the war and a squadron of Canadian North Star transports had joined the U.N. airlift...
...have any meaning beyond that of saving half of a remote country from an aggressor, it must be shown to the world that the United States, as democracy's strongest defender, is prepared to go the limit to guard world freedom. That was the significance of the Berlin airlift, that was the significance of aid to Greece and Western Europe, and that must be the significance of the establishment of a free and united Korea, undisturbed by imaginary partitions...
...fifth day of operations the airlift flew into Kimpo about 2,400 paratroopers with trucks, trailers and weapons...