Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holdings and put $5,000,000 into Liberty Bonds: his taxable income dropped from its prewar $2,300,000 to $617,000 in 1917 and a loss in 1918. He spent $85,000 of his own money to send a government mission to England, and many more thousands to transport his board's 4,000 women workers back to their homes after the Armistice. (In the last 25 years, he has probably spent $2,500,000 on public service. Once in the '30s, alarmed by U.S. unpreparedness, he offered the Army $3,300,000 to buy machinery...
...entire valley is crisscrossed by vital rail lines, virtually every Ruhr raid has struck hard at transport facilities. All the valley's traffic is now badly disrupted. Wholesale evacuation of refugees from the bomb-strafed centers has further complicated the mess. As the Ruhr produces roughly three quarters of Germany's coal, four fifths of her coke and two thirds of the nation's raw iron and steel, the effect of transport disruption on German industry as a whole is great...
...muleback trip from Buna or Lae to the base hospital at Port Moresby. But Army hospital planes made it in 45 minutes, evacuated 17,000 men during the recent campaign. Since their organization last December,* the Air Forces' Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadrons have moved in New Guinea and Tunisia, or lugged to the U.S. from the Southwest Pacific, Alaska, Africa or India, or shuttled around the U.S. 50,000 ill and wounded men. Only two deaths have occurred in flight. Creator of the system: the A.A.F.'s air surgeon, Brigadier General David N. W. Grant...
Aviation dopesters believe that CAB is about to break its application log jam so that civilian air transport can get off to a fast start after the war. One tip came last week, when CAB permitted three airlines (United, TWA and Eastern) to establish new routes to Washington as soon as the Army would let them have some more planes. But for land operators like Keeshin, the going may be tougher: during its five years of existence CAB has not allowed other common carriers to own any airlines...
...took a hard crack at "extravagant" claims that any number of planes could absorb most of the land & sea transport business after the war. OWI argued sensibly that the more planes there are the more ships, trucks and railroad cars will be needed to fuel and supply them. According to Civil Aeronautics Administrator Charles I. Stanton, more than two 10,000-ton tanker loads of gasoline would be needed to refuel enough Clipper trips from New York to England to carry the cargo that one 10,000-ton freighter could take across in a single voyage...