Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the wings of a U.S. Army transport Iran's high, hot plateau flowed past. In the wasteland below Special Passenger Francis Joseph Spellman, Archbishop of New York, Roman Catholic Military Vicar and unofficial envoy of the Vatican, lay tumbled the ruins of palaces built by ancient Persian conquerors; across it snaked a railway and motor road pulsing with Lend-Lease for Russia...
...British heavy bombers, grounded for several days, returned to the punishing round-the-clock schedule at week's end. In a raid unparalleled in its force they beat down the Ruhr's defenses and loosed 2,000 tons of bombs over the rail and water transport center of Dortmund, already heavily damaged in previous raids. With such attacks the weight of bombs dropped on Germany was soaring to astronomical figures: after Dortmund, the R.A.F. figured that its Bomber Command had reached the 100,000-ton mark. German retaliation to the air war was, by comparison, infinitesimal-nuisance raids...
What really pleased everyone was that this week's transport trickle may turn into a respectable flow of planes by midsummer. For months both the Post Office and CAB have backed up the airlines' pleas for planes. CAB is now pushing for "a substantial number" of brand-new domestic transports. Since transport plane production today is also "substantial," the tide may have turned for domestic airlines...
...same thing that hurried the British into action worried Juan Trippe into speechmaking: military strategy has concentrated British plane production on fighters, while the U.S. has been building (and flying) practically all of the transport planes. Thus the U.S. will have all the planes and most of the know-how to dominate the international airways when war ends. This fact is one basis of the hullabaloo about "freedom of the air." War pushed other U.S. airlines into international aviation, under contract to the U.S. Army. But Pan Am, as the only U.S. airline that flew the world under...
...gold medal for "distinguished achievement"): "If you want to win a baseball game, you try to outhit the other fellow but you don't take away his bat. ... I urge that when the fighting stops British Overseas Airways be permitted to secure-on equitable terms-all the ocean transport planes that are needed to restore the balance for fair competition." He also gave a glimpse of the size of Pan Am's postwar baseball bat, revealed that for more than a year Pan Am has planned "50 giant clippers, each capable of carrying 153 passengers from New York...