Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then a special air-cargo rate that would make this operation economically possible was approved by the U.S. Government and, in May of 1941, our Air Express edition (now called Latin American) began. It was printed on fast offset presses in Jersey City, N.J. and carried by Pan American Airways planes to 20 countries in South and Central America, thereby cutting delivery time by three weeks. We also worked out a technique of photographing TIME'S editorial copy on film, which could be rushed by air to Latin American printing plants...
...legation quarter, in the heart of the city. Gangs of padded-gowned forced labor leveled telephone poles, trees and buildings on the approaches to the strip. Enterprising citizens dashed in to gather up precious firewood for their chilly hearths. Three days after construction began, two Chinese army cargo planes settled on to the perilously cramped runway. They were unable to take off again. Fu's airstrip seemed to be a one-way street...
...Correspondent Robert Doyle on hand, but the LIFE photographer-reporter team of Jack Birns and Roy Rowan, who had scored a beat with their eyewitness report of Mukden's last hours, were in Shanghai. The General agreed to a next morning departure. Birns and Rowan boarded a civilian cargo plane at Shanghai, but a ground haze delayed the landing at Nanking until 10 a.m., almost three hours after General Chou's transport plane was to leave for the Suchow battlefront. Gruin spent the interval conning the Chinese airmen into waiting for the overdue plane. At length, the TIME...
United Airlines has a new solution to he baggage problem. United, expecting its student-patrons to be loaded down with suitcases, has arranged special cargo planes for Friday and Saturday...
With a four goal lead the varsity offense slackened off, and for the rest of the night consisted mostly of sporadic rushes on the Tech cargo, which was often des tended only by the goalie. Most of the latter scores cames as a result of individual ability, a quality supplied admirably by the Key brothers, Myles Huntington, Dave Abbot, and Doug Anderson...