Word: transportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John X, then the bells of the ancient Notre Dame Cathedral tolled. Hundreds of Belgians fell in behind the procession as a caisson bore the casket to a pier on the Scheldt. There the casket of John X joined 5,599 others in the hold of the U.S. Army transport Joseph V. Connolly, strung with flowers from bow to stern. While U.S. Thunderbolts from Germany dipped aloft, the Connolly steamed down the Scheldt, its banks lined with thousands of silent Belgians...
...quantities were sold to Great Britain at approximately 10? on the dollar. We have hundreds of thousands of tons of such stocks today, rotting and rusting throughout the world. . . . Such of those stocks as can be used in Manchuria should be released immediately and sold to China and their transport rushed...
...strike was not over pay. The airline and union had already agreed to a new scale (a minimum guarantee of $939 a month for first-year DC-4 captains, up to $1,308 for Constellation senior captains). American termed the scale "the highest in the history of international commercial transport flying." David L. Behncke, the hard-bargaining president of the A.L.P.A., said the strike was caused by a last-minute demand of the airline. A.O.A. would agree to sign the contract, said Behncke, only if the union waived pilot grievances...
...crisis was of prime importance, not only to planemakers, but to everyone in the U.S. The aircraft industry, along with air transport and foreign air routes, was a major instrument of U.S. foreign policy, U.S. defense. Yet plane production has withered away until the current annual rate is only 1,370 planes. Major General (ret.) Oliver P. Echols, president of the Aircraft Industries Association, told the commission that it would be "impossible to provide the 6,000 to 10,000 planes necessary to bring the air forces up to operational [i.e., minimum fighting] level within any period of time strategic...
...Transport and personal planes, it had been hoped, would keep the industry going. But personal planes, by & large, had flopped. Last week, Republic Aviation Corp. discontinued its Seabee amphibian after losing $811 million on 1,060 of them. North American had lost $8 million on the Navion personal plane...