Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry J. Kaiser was back in Washington this week, heaving his big bulk around corridors and offices, trying to pound his cargo-plane home for once & all. The net result, it appeared, would be not enough to satisfy eager Henry Kaiser-perhaps an order for three prototypes of a new cargo plane (bigger than the 70-ton Mars) designed by his project partner, Airman Howard Hughes-a far cry from Kaiser's original offer to get right to work on an order for 5,000 planes. But considering the painstaking nature of aircraft engineering-with its many slips between...
Kaiser's trip to Washington was a saga in itself. When the train that he was supposed to take pulled out of the Los Angeles Union Station, he was just starting to broadcast a Labor Day message from the Beverly Hills Hotel, taking his cargo-plane visions right to the people...
...basis) turned out last year, war needs would gobble it up. Beech Aircraft Corp. has already begun production on an all-plywood bomber trainer. Fairchild has been turning out all-plywood primary trainers for some time. Curtiss-Wright is using the same stuff to make twin-engined cargo airplanes...
...Plywood Corp., told stockholders that their company's "products had found their way into so many war uses that the company could not supply more than a fraction of the demand, despite substantial increases in production facilities." A few production uses are: gliders, torpedo boats, mine sweepers, cargo vessels, army landing boats, defense housing, pipe, chemical vats, shipping containers...
...operators are doing all they can to prevent such beefs. Last week Panagra started a new all-cargo service between Lima and the Canal Zone, set up a new trans-Andean schedule between Antofagasta and Salta to boot...