Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy the Nazi commander. Colonel General Heinrich von Vietinghoff, had watched the Russians closing his Austrian escape routes, but made no move to pull out. His supplies of fuel and transport were low. No one knew better than he that once he took to the roads Allied airmen could cut his columns to bits. Here he must stand and fight...
More than 1,400,000 French buildings have been destroyed. At least 600 communities, little ones like Le Bosquel and big ones like Le Havre and Brest, must be rebuilt. Ports, railways and roads have first priority. A nation struggling with hunger, lack of transport, shortages of every kind, the manifold readjustments of liberation, can move only slowly to remove the scars of destruction. But it can plan...
Furthermore, domestic lines have learned so much in flying around the globe for the Army's Air Transport Command and Naval Air Transport Service that they are now confident that they can meet Pan Am at its own globe-girdling game. On the thousands of route miles which the U.S. has strung around the world, some eight domestic lines, Pan Am, Pan American-Grace and American Export Airlines have flown the astronomical distance of 2,581,903,999 passenger miles on overseas routes since Pearl Harbor...
...modern standards Aerovias would be rated as a puny operation. It has a lone DC-3 in service, another in the shops being converted from an Army transport. Its single line from Mexico City north to Nuevo Laredo on the Rio Grande is only 569 miles long, takes only four and a half hours to fly. It will have no more planes to fly the line until it gets them from the U.S. Army...
...Braniff searched the air transport industry for good men, sent his gangling Braniff Airways north to tap the rich traffic at Kansas City, Chicago and Denver. A businessman with a hawk eye for facts & figures, Braniff watched his operating costs, held losses at a minimum...