Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demand, from such men, there was yet hope. A leading Wheeler-Isolationist, Colorado's Senator Ed Johnson, strangely got together with a leading Roosevelt-New Dealer, Oklahoma's Josh Lee, to propose a Senate bill to create a new military supply board to direct immediate construction of cargo planes-thus indicating their impatience with a war effort which fails to do the right things fast enough...
...Battle Opens. Navy patrol planes picked up the first enemy column west of Midway on June 3. This was the landing force: cruisers, transports, cargo ships, many escort vessels. Far to the north a U.S. carrier force ranged. But it would be a full day before it could get within range...
...Helpful was a small-plane courier-cargo service newly established by OCD's Civil Air Patrol, shuttling between factories and shipping points...
...still lies ahead. What there is of the Air Transport Command is as yet too picayune to play an important part for General Somervell's Services of Supply. The U.S. has still no true cargo planes, built with tail or nose hatches for easy loading and unloading...
Hundred-Tonners. A WPB air-cargo committee has explored the possible construction of 100-ton winged trucks. The Department of Commerce wants 800 all-steel freighters (stainless steel is still at a premium). The Army has contracted for lots of DC-3s, hundreds of 25-ton Curtiss twin-engined troop-toting Commandos...