Word: caribs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hoopla Pays. In 1945, with only $60,000, Chalk founded the nonsked Trans Caribbean Airways by buying two DC-3s, and within two years it was earning $60,000 annually. Trans Carib expanded to lift thousands of refugees from Europe to Israel, tons of airmail from Europe to South America, flew charter trips from Johannesburg to Jerusalem. It grew so strong that in 1957 it won a regular U.S.-Puerto Rico route, became the first nonsked passenger airline in 20 years to win scheduled status (TIME, Dec. 2, 1957). Last year Trans Carib (including its major subsidiary, D.C. Transit) earned...
TRANS CARIBBEAN AIRWAYS will become first nonscheduled passenger airline in 20 years to win scheduled status. Civil Aeronautics Board certified Trans Carib for five round trips daily on the lucrative New York-Puerto Rico run, which Trans Carib has been servicing until now as a supplemental carrier, i.e., only ten scheduled flights a month. Trans Carib plans charging $45 for one-way tourist fares v. $64 charged by competing Pan American and Eastern...
...joint air, sea and land maneuver, Carib-Ex pulled together 17,000 men, 200 planes and 30 ships, making it the biggest U.S. military show in Latin America since the 1930s. As the landing force knifed inland, a swarm of helicopters deposited another Marine assault force near the vital Gatun Locks. Two days later 1,000 paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division floated down to take strategic ground on the Pacific side of the Isthmus...
...Then from along the beach below, the shriek of jet planes and blast of simulated atomic bombs drowned out the music. As the planes carried out their make-believe destruction, nine waves of landing craft chugged toward the beach, bringing 3,500 U.S. Marines. Operation Carib-Ex was under...
...training maneuver. Carib-Ex's theoretical goal was to drive an aggressor force out of the Canal Zone. But the show's main purpose was to build good will by impressing the Latin generals with the quick punch that the U.S. could bring to their .aid in the event of real aggression anywhere in the hemisphere. Mindful of this role, the U.S. extended full military honors to the visitors, and Admiral Arthur Radford, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, flew down to play host...