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...more alarming, perhaps is that New York today draws even the New England business which should logically be Boston's. When, in November of '64, the Massachusetts Port Authority launched a campaign for Port of Boston Export Month they discovered that some 700,000 tons of general export cargo originating in Boston's immediate marketing area were being shipped via New York. (The campaign, incidentally, was wrecked by a Longshoremen's strike...
...frenetic modern port that rivals Charleston's in size. There, last week, building supplies, ammunition and barrels of fuel were stacked endlessly on the beaches near rows of new ware houses and barracks. On a flattened hilltop, antiaircraft Hawk missiles stood at the ready. Nearby, giant C-130 cargo planes and F-4 Phantom jet fighters returning from combat taxied down on a new 10,000-ft. runway. "When we landed last June," said Colonel William F. Hart of the 35th Engineers Group, "there was one pier here and that's about all. lust look...
...snub-nosed, whale-tailed airplane that looks as if it would be lucky to get off the ground. Officially designated the C-130 Hercules, it is known as the "Herky Bird" to thousands of U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam, and it provides them with the sustenance of life. The cargo-carrying Herky Bird works when monsoon rains keep supply ships offshore. It flies ammunition and chow to artillery units isolated by the Viet Cong, now moves 65% of the military air cargo inside road-shy South Viet Nam. Wrote Marine Captain George A. Baker III to his cousin in Georgia...
...work gangs took an average of only 48 hours to repair bombed roads, as little as 72 hours to fix shattered rail lines. Where the rail damage was too extensive to repair, work battalions often ran one train up to a bombed-out stretch, then transferred its entire cargo to a train waiting on the other side...
...Harvard Victory, which did transport work at the end of World War II, is about 450 feet long and carries a cargo of 10,000 tons. It will have a crew of 45 to 50 civilians...