Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Civil Aeronautics Board, already choked with applications for new flying routes from U.S. airlines, last week disclosed that twelve land lines (truckers, bus operators and railroads) had also asked for permission to muscle into the airfreight business. The biggest: Chicago's fabulous Keeshin Freight Lines...
...line). John Hertz and "My Boy Danny" are no longer on Keeshin's board, but air-minded Lehman Corp. ''who also have a finger in both American Airlines and Pan American Airways) still own a big chunk of his company. Keeshin's grandiose postwar air-freight plan is to serve over 200 U.S. cities with five-to-eleven-ton transports and also to establish "gateway" service for foreign freight runs in 18 air "ports," from New York to Seattle, and from Minneapolis to Miami and New Orleans...
...postwar schedule predicted last week. Flying time from London to the U.S. will be 15 hours. In all, some 300 persons a day will fly westbound (with an equal number headed east) in luxury airliners capable of carrying up to 57 passengers, plus heavy loads of mail and freight...
Australia's Air & Civil Aviation Minister Arthur Samuel Drakeford added estimates of Japanese shipping sunk by Allied action: 2,250,000 tons of warships and freight carriers. All told, the Jap was believed to have lost more ships since the outbreak of war than he had gained by seizure or new construction...
...German target, and much of the hurt has been repaired. If last year's bombings had a permanent effect, it was largely from one of the least noticed phases of the air offensive-the attacks by fighters and bombers on Axis rail equipment. Short of locomotives and freight cars when the war started, now needing them as never before the Germans by early 1943 were losing upward of 150 railway engines and many more freight cars each month...