Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roared into Tempelhof, Tegel and Gatow airfields at the rate of one a minute. Twenty-four hours and 1,398 trips later, they paused to tot up the score. They had gone way over the top, had flown in 12,940 tons. That was equivalent to the load 22 freight trains might have carried-more than Berlin's West sectors even got by land in a single day before the nine-months-old Russian blockade began...
...last great shortage-steel-showed unexpected signs of coming to an end. Steel plants piled up their tenth consecutive week of overcapacity production; there was a drop in orders for such essential products as freight cars. Last week the Department of Commerce took official note of the increased supply. It announced that in June it would reduce the amount of steel allocated for essential uses, thus making another 95,000 tons a month available to everyone...
Before asking for revision of the act, CAB will finish four fact-finding inquiries into 1) mail-carrying costs; 2) the economy and efficiency of the major airlines; 3) the feasibility of joint airport and ticket facilities; and 4) air freight rates. It seemed to O'Connell that somewhere between the "meat-ax approach" to the problem of subsidies and the present tendency to higher & higher mail pay there must be a road to a system of sounder and more profitable airlines...
...Deal. The Long Island's troubles were caused by: 1) poor management; 2) the preponderance of passenger traffic over money-making freight traffic; and 3) the recent rise in operating costs. Never a rich road (it had gone bankrupt twice before), it had nevertheless managed to make money between...
That meant that the remaining 32 Tudors were grounded except for overland freight hops, experimental work and gasoline tanker duties on the Berlin airlift. The Civil Aviation Parliamentary Secretary gave a stark but realistic reason for the exceptions: "Those that have crashed have disappeared under the sea and there is no story to tell. If one crashes on land, there can be an examination of what is left of the aircraft, and those skilled in these matters may find some reason for the failure...