Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...east of Phoenix. This succeeded right off the bat -Southwest was on its way. To handle the Army's stepped-up pilot program Hayward expanded the original civilian school and built Thunderbird Field II. To overhaul training planes and engines he set up a big repair depot. To haul high-priority military cargo he started an airline over a censored Pacific Coast route. Meanwhile Southwest trained thousands of pilots (27 nationalities but mostly U.S., British and Chinese), expanded its staff time & again...
...completed, the motors were started on the pumps at Longview and the thick, black crude oil had begun the slow, oozing (three miles per hour) journey north and eastward. Some ten days later it would reach the storage tanks at Norris City; from there tank cars would soon haul it to the Eastern Seaboard. By next June, when the second section of the line is completed-from Norris City to Philadelphia and Bayway, N.J.-Eastern refineries will be able to draw oil from far-off Texas as easily as a housewife gets water from the kitchen faucet. And the spigot...
...stocks; as the North African champaign became more complicated, the drain increased. Zero and sub-zero weather compounded the crisis. Last week some strong emergency measures were necessary. Harold L. Ickes, Petroleum Administrator for War, banned delivery of gasoline by tank car to the East, ordered the cars to haul only fuel oil. Three days earlier he and OPA cut the fuel oil ration for non-heating purposes...
...shortest haul to any of the Allied battlefronts is 1,200 miles, the longest 14,000 miles. Every new front opened-in New Guinea, the Solomons, North Africa-is a strategic gain for the Allies, but it also imposes an additional drain on available shipping. The invasion of North Africa, and supply for the Allies after they were established in that theater, have required some 1,000 merchant voyages to date (the number of ships, each making several trips, may be considerably less...
...landing 2,000,000 lb. of supplies a week. In a single day he delivered 519,000 lb.-100 planeloads. He flew in a 250-bed hospital with enough equipment to maintain it for ten days. He delivered a four-gun battery of 105-mm. howitzers, with tractors to haul them and crews to operate them. A Flying Fortress is designed to carry no more than 6,000 lb.; a 105-mm. howitzer unit weighs 7,000. Kenney flew the guns 1,500 miles from Australia and delivered them over weather-treacherous, 12,000-ft. mountains to makeshift airfields. Among...