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...went with a captain called Peter in his Bren gun carrier. His job was to go in with the first infantry attack and then to haul mortars and anti-tank guns across the wadi, once we had consolidated our positions. Zero hour was originally 11, then it was postponed until 1 in the morning...
...sign of what postwar moving days may be like, Pittsburgh's wide-awake W. J. Dillner Transfer Co. applied to operate an air-cargo line to haul household goods anywhere in the U.S. and Alaska. The company wants to fly pianos, refrigerators, kitchen stoves, etc., would start out with four cargo planes (five-and ten-ton load capacity) and six gliders (two-or three-ton loads...
...hull was just off the ways of a little Newfoundland town. Half an hour after she slipped into the smooth bay she was outward bound, hitched to a tugboat, for a short haul to her outfitting port. The four men aboard her had food for two days, a small stove, a teakettle, an ax, lamp, nails and some rope...
...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...
...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...