Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Decisive Moment. "We will walk back into Burma," said Merrill firmly, as his men left India in February 1944. For the next four months, supplied by airdrops and using only mules and their own feet for transport, they slogged 500 miles across the most nightmarish terrain on earth, fought five major engagements and 30 minor ones against the crack Japanese 18th Division, whose commanders were convinced that the regimental-strength Marauders totaled two full divisions...
...Harold L. Pearson, 52, lost his $42,500-a-year job as president of the Air Transport Association after six months in office. Pearson's highhanded running of A.T.A. threatened the prestige of the scheduled airlines that make up the organization; e.g., he threatened to pull airline advertising out of a newspaper that editorialized against airplane noise. Pearson's successor: Stuart G. Tipton, 45, A.T.A.'s general counsel...
...Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (Warner). On July 21, 1921, nine clumsy biplanes crossed the Virginia coast and rumbled out to sea like tired June bugs. Eight of them were loaded to limit with a 2,000-lb. egg of destruction. Below, on the deck of the transport Henderson, a crowd of U.S. admirals, generals, Cabinet members and Congressmen milled for vantage with a score of newsmen and foreign diplomats. One by one the bombers buzzed past the target at about 2,500 ft. and laid their eggs. At the sixth pass, an aged officer put his head...
...TRANSPORT ORDERS are still climbing. The latest: Eastern Air Lines for 26 Douglas DC-8s (six with Pratt & Whitney J57 engines the rest with bigger J75s) worth $165 million, for delivery starting in May 1959; Japan Air Lines for four L>C-8s worth $27 million, for delivery m 1960; Continental Air Lines for four Boeing 707s worth $21.3 million, for delivery in May 1959. Orders and options to date: 99 Douglas DC-8s, 60 Boeing 707 jetliners...
...British." On the transport side, Britain has spent upwards of $70 million on a lost fleet since 1941. At first, planemakers laid their plans around huge flying boats ideal for empire routes, where long runways and well-equipped airfields were few and far between, ordered four models, including a gigantic, ten-engined Saunders-Roe Princess flying boat at a cost of some $22 million. As it turned out, big airfields were built in virtually every corner of the world during World War II, thus making Great Britain's flying boats obsolete...