Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seventh day broke bright and clear. A long train of C-47 transport planes and towed gliders came over Arnhem. More hundreds of paratroops, more tons of supplies fell to help the men in the "patch of hell...
...night Junkers transport planes towing gliders passed like flocks of wild geese over the hills of Yugoslavia. They were rescuing valued German personnel from Greece. The Germans were trying to save their last assets in the Balkans...
...trickle of supplies to China, flown over the Hump from India by the U.S. Army Air Transport Command, has grown to a rill: almost 25,000 tons a month, as compared with barely half that in the good old days of the bad old Burma Road. In addition, the Fourteenth and Twentieth carry in much of their own gasoline. Of the A.T.C.'s tonnage, 25 to 40% goes to Chinese ground troops, under the personal allocation and supervision of General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell. This comprises 75-and 105-mm. guns, trucks, jeeps, small arms and ammunition...
Boeing Air Transport, which was later incorporated into United Airlines, was the first radio-equipped transport line; the first with stewardesses, one of the earliest with pilots in uniform. In 1933 Phil Johnson built the first all-metal, twin-engined transport-the famed Boeing 247, which instantly outmoded the hodgepodge of U.S. aircraft equipment...
Boeing and United became part of a huge aircraft group-United Aircraft & Transport Corp., with Johnson, at 39, its president. He thus became a natural target in 1933 when the Black Committee's famed airline investigation began. The Air Mail Act of 1934 ostracized him and other airline officials from the industry. Johnson contemplated retirement but, instead, went off to organize and operate Trans-Canada Airlines. His exile ended in 1939, after the legislation which had driven him out of the industry was rescinded. Vindicated, he came home, became president of Boeing...