Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Although handicapped by planes generally smaller than those used by the U.S. Air Force, the R.A.F. has delivered 136,911 tons of cargo to Berlin - 30% of the total airlift...
...field they climbed into a C-54, one of three waiting in a queue. They checked over the plane, took a look at the cargo-flour and condensed soup...
Hensch tried the ropes, which were taut against the nine tons of cargo filling a ridiculously small part of the enormous interior. The two pilots went into the cockpit and started to warm up the engines. "They had a pretty good lunch in there today," said Baker to Hensch. "It was fish, but it was good." They had a little informal conversation with the control tower. (British pilots are still lost in wonder at the informality of U.S. communications. One British pilot walks around Berlin shaking his head and telling everybody he overheard a U.S. airman on the strip...
Thunderbird's Egg. Southwest's majority owners, ex-Test Pilot John H. Connelly, 48, president, and Cinemagent & Play Producer Leland Hayward, board chairman, hatched the airline from their wartime partnership in the Thunderbird cadet flying schools (TIME, June 9, 1941) and their wartime cargo line across the Pacific. At war's end, with $2,000,000 in capital and the backing of such Hollywood bigwigs as Jimmy Stewart, Brian Aherne and Darryl Zanuck, they got a three-year experimental charter from CAB for their West Coast feeder service...
...Presidential Special" rolled back to Washington, its cargo of frazzled newsmen were frankly horrified at Harry Truman's endless cheerfulness and energy. Despite a sore throat and his 64 years he leaped out of bed at 5 every morning, apparently unable to wait for another exhausting...