Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tremendous prestige-and smart flyer's brains-of the Army Air Forces' chief, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold. Ten days ago, General Arnold hastily called a hush-hush meeting in Washington of the U.S. airlines which operate routes for the Army's world-straddling Air Transport Command. (Pan American was included.) General Arnold advised them to take steps...
...Harpoon. The conferees adopted a five-point program: 1) free and open worldwide air competition, subject to reasonable Federal regulation; 2) private ownership and management; 3) Federal encouragement of a worldwide air transport system; 4) worldwide freedom of transit in peaceful flight; 5) acquisition by the U.S. of the civil and commercial outlets required in the public interest...
...harpoon for Pan Am came in a statement of policy: "There can be no rational basis for permitting" air transport outside the U.S. to be "left to the withering influence of monopoly." To implement the new "free" policy, the 16 airlines served notice on CAB that they will promptly file petitions for permission to operate worldwide air routes...
...three months and one week," concludes Author Wolfert, "[Torpedo 8] carried out 39 attack missions. . . . They were credited with two carriers. They also hit a battleship, five heavy cruisers, four light cruisers, one destroyer, and one transport. . . . When there were no Jap ships to torpedo, they glide-bombed Japs on the ground." After one such bombing, the Marines found 407 enemy dead. The Author. Ever since his hasty birth in a bathtub (Manhattan, 1908), talented Author Wolfert has been in a hurry. In the last 19 months he breathlessly...
...spoke Sir Arthur Salter, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport: "There have been two periods in this war when the shipping situation was so serious as to threaten the whole issue of the war. Twice the balance was restored, and, to use a transatlantic phrase, twice we have got out from the red by the efforts of the United States of America...