Word: transporte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Arthur Whitehouse and his big-eyed, ten-month-old daughter arrived in Philadelphia. On the 1,000-mile journey, Father Whitehouse had efficiently mixed and administered her formula. Geraldine Mary Whitehouse, the youngest passenger ever flown across the North Atlantic route by the Air Transport Command, exhibited a placid, healthy interest in her toes. Much less sure of himself, Father Whitehouse delayed seeing his wife, headed straight for his mother's three-room apartment. Startled, Mrs. Whitehouse Senior remarked "Well, I didn't expect this kind of Christmas present." Then she added...
...Achtung . . . Achtung . . . Achtung. . . ." The bleak warning rolled endlessly from German loudspeakers as the Allied air offensive rolled endlessly on against German oil and transport...
Occasionally the Luftwaffe chose to fight. When 500 U.S. fighters swept down on northwest Germany to strafe transport, 400 interceptors rose to challenge. They lost 98 in the air and four more trying to take off, against a U.S. loss of only...
Armed with a bronze plaque for the City of Stalingrad, General Charles de Gaulle climbed into his transport plane and zoomed off for Moscow. In Cairo, he dropped down for a chat with Egypt's King Farouk. In Teheran, he dropped down for a chat with Iran's Shah Reza Pahlevi. But at Baku, Russia's big oil city on the Caspian Sea, General de Gaulle ran into General Winter...
...Cartel. Britain's tall, lean-jawed Lord Swinton had steadfastly plumped for the all-powerful authority to fix plane rates, routes, and passenger and cargo quotas-in effect, he wanted to cartelize postwar air transport. Otherwise, Britain feared that the sky-filling transport fleet of the U.S. would monopolize global flying. Stubbornly, Adolph A. Berle Jr., nimble-witted chairman of the U.S. delegation, demanded the freest of competition, argued that cartelization would hamstring postwar progress in aviation...