Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today the most valuable form of transportation and the scarcest of all is air transportation. We today can well afford, and blessed would we be if we had, 10,000 big four-engine cargo planes that we could supply our forces in the Orient instead of running the hazards of having them sunk on the seas by enemy submarines. If we could carry the millions of tons by air across the Atlantic, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, instead of shipping it on the high seas, the losses would be almost nil, and it would be carried there in hours instead...
...Curtiss-Wright borrowed Doolittle to demonstrate its planes in Chile, in competition with German pilots. At a party one night Jimmy Doolittle took on an average cargo of highballs, did a handstand on a window ledge two stories above the street. The ledge began to crumble. Ashamed to call for help, he fell to the sidewalk and broke both ankles. A German pilot insisted on running the plane trials on the scheduled day. Doolittle had his feet strapped to the rudder bar, chased the German from the sky. Later, with his crutches in the plane, he soloed across the deathtraps...
...Hitler as the architect of Europe's future. They had tried at one & the same time to placate Hitler and grab as much of France as possible for themselves. In this bargaining game they had sold out the French people by all manner of internal concessions, by making cargo shipments to the Axis in Libya, admitting German "technicians and importers" to Africa, deporting French workers and Jewish refugees to Germany, libeling Third Republican leaders who bravely threw the charges back in Vichy's face at the Riom trials...
...camps with sufficient good-quality milk at big savings in money and shipping space, but the post-war possibilities of reconstituted milk are enormous. Many sections of the world, notably the tropics and Far East, have never had adequate milk supplies. The dehydrates can be shipped anywhere as general cargo...
When the smoke cleared, ten or more U.S. fighter craft and several cargo planes had been destroyed on the ground. The Japs had attacked on schedule as the rain-laden monsoon blew itself out. Next day United Nations planes struck back, raiding Jap bases in Burma...