Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberatión. Included in this junta were leaders of the Center, Moderate Left, Catalonian Anarchists. Excluded were the Communists. Its guiding intelligence was Indalecio Prieto, right-wing Socialist and onetime Minister of War in the Spanish Republican Government. The junta's most important asset: an almost legendary cargo of Spanish gold, silver bars, securities, bullion, jewels, shipped to Mexico when the Spanish Republic fell...
...winter of 1943-44 the division flew more traffic over the Atlantic than in the whole summer of 1942. Traffic is up to more than 40 crossings a day. Last month more passengers, cargo and mail moved over the Army's North Atlantic run than during any month last summer (except during the period immediately before and after the invasion...
...will carry passengers at the fantastically low direct cost of 1? per mile; freight, in an all-cargo design, at 5? per ton-mile...
Based on B-29 design, the Stratocruiser's two-decked, double fuselage, looking in cross section like a cigar atop a stogie, is fatter and longer than that of the B29, although the wing spread is the same. As an all-cargo Army plane, it will haul 35,000 pounds, which can be easily trundled in & out a letdown ramp in the rear. In a pinch, it can carry 172 soldiers. For postwar flying, Boeing expects airlines to use the top deck for passengers, who can sleep in roomy berths (see cut), the bottom either for a cocktail lounge...
...Stretcher equipment has been installed in all new cargo planes-180,000 such beds are available...