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...lanky Monroe County boy named Estes Kefauver. Estes was a lumber handler, hoisting it into freight cars. Ray was a grader, checking lumber as it was piled in the cars. Says Tennessee's Senator Kefauver: "I was always kind of envious of him. He could stay in the boxcar where it was cool; I had to stay...
Estes Kefauver can talk all he wants about how hot it is in the sun and how shady in the boxcar, but he had better not complain too much about life in Washington...
Twice a day for the past six weeks, weather permitting, Earthquake had eased his massive body (6 ft., 250 lbs.) into the pilot seat of a C-119 Flying Boxcar, trucked its seven-ton load of ammunition and food the 90 flying minutes from Haiphong to beleaguered Dienbienphu...
...rear of the aerial train, Flying Boxcar No. 29 dropped out of formation in the turbulent air-probably because of engine or propeller trouble. It nosed down and glided full into a "stick" of floating paratroopers from the plane ahead. Dented and damaged by the impact of their bodies, it slid down in a long death dive and vanished behind the pine tops. A pillar of smoke rose in the distance. Ten dead men came down from the sky. Some, whose chutes had been chopped up, plummeted, some floated as casually as the living. Living jumpers from Plane...
FAIRCHILD Engine & Airplane Corp. is building a prototype of a new lightweight earth mover, the Transair Tractor, which it hopes will revolutionize military and civilian construction equipment. Only 22½ ft. long, it weighs 13,000 Ibs. and can be carried in a C-119 Flying Boxcar. On the job, it can take on up to 40,000 Ibs. of dirt or water as ballast, do the job of a bulldozer, power shovel, or air compressor capable of running 12 pneumatic jackhammers. Fairchild, which will deliver the first model to the Army next December, hopes eventually to cut the price...