Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Money, Liquor, Women. The racketeers started by selling cigarets, watches, personal odds & ends. Then they branched out, sacrificing valuable cargo space to make room for their contraband, some times interrupting vital flights to get rid of it. Plied with women and liquor by well-heeled crooks, more & more U.S. air men became an integral part of the story book international syndicate that used an elaborate network of fences and even secret codes...
Does all this add up to postwar pilotless cargo planes, shooting through the stratosphere at inhuman speeds and heights? The engineers who have developed the automatic devices think not. They believe that for some time to come it will be necessary for a pilot, to go along to correct the machines' mistakes or inadequacies. But the pilot will not have much else...
...reason, food-importing Britain well knew, was that dry cargo coming into United Kingdom ports had been cut from 55 million to 26 million tons a year. Loss of ships (11,643,000 gross tons between September 1939 and January 1944) and the demands of war manufacturing were the main reasons. In five years, Britain's arsenals had produced 35 million machine and submachine guns, each far more complex than the rifles of earlier wars. Aircraft factories, which built only 41 heavy bombers in 1940, the year of the Battle of Britain, were building them at the rate...
...Cartel. Britain's tall, lean-jawed Lord Swinton had steadfastly plumped for the all-powerful authority to fix plane rates, routes, and passenger and cargo quotas-in effect, he wanted to cartelize postwar air transport. Otherwise, Britain feared that the sky-filling transport fleet of the U.S. would monopolize global flying. Stubbornly, Adolph A. Berle Jr., nimble-witted chairman of the U.S. delegation, demanded the freest of competition, argued that cartelization would hamstring postwar progress in aviation...
...Cover, 51, lean, weather-beaten, super-efficient Bell Aircraft Corp. vice president, onetime crack test pilot of nearly all Douglas aircraft (e.g., DC-3 transport, A20 attack "Havoc" bomber, etc.); and Max Stupar, 59, Austrian-born industrial-aviation planner; in an airplane crash, while flying a twin-engined cargo plane from Marietta, Ga. to Buffalo, N.Y.; near Wright Field, Dayton...