Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest, most far-flung application came from New England's little Northeast Airlines, which before the war operated only a handful of airplanes over 869 miles between Boston and New Brunswick, has since grown toward postwar power on military cargo flights across the North Atlantic (TIME, Dec. 14). Now Northeast wants to fly passengers, mail and express freight over 22,866 route miles between Boston, Moscow and at least nine other European cities: "Boston to Moscow in 18 hours ... at [fares] no greater than third-class transatlantic steamship fare." Other applications...
...sign of what postwar moving days may be like, Pittsburgh's wide-awake W. J. Dillner Transfer Co. applied to operate an air-cargo line to haul household goods anywhere in the U.S. and Alaska. The company wants to fly pianos, refrigerators, kitchen stoves, etc., would start out with four cargo planes (five-and ten-ton load capacity) and six gliders (two-or three-ton loads...
...China has no fuel. "Every gallon of gasoline used by our forces in China goes in by air. Each cargo plane must carry-in addition to its normal load-enough gasoline to get back to India...
Most important result is that airlines and shippers can now handle cargoes without help from Railway Express when convenient. In return for giving up its monopoly, Railway Express gained an important concession: it may, subject to Government approval, set up in the air express business itself with its own cargo planes...
Without sacrificing its output of cargo ships, the U.S. also is putting emphasis on a new class of escorts which are smaller than modern destroyers, bigger and faster than corvettes...