Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five-far too many for round-the-clock operations on CAA's tight budget. Many pilots disliked the idea of putting themselves in the hands of an unknown operator on the ground. Furthermore, G.C.A. was not foolproof-a fact emphasized this week when a Navy four-engined transport, landing through the fog at the Oakland airport under G.C.A. control, crashed and burned...
...national debt: $5 billion. ¶ Tax refunds to individuals and corporations: $2.1 billion. ¶ Army & Navy: $11.2 billion (by far the largest single item). ¶International affairs: $3.5 billion-including $1.2 billion for the loan to Britain and $14.8 million for U.N. ¶ Veterans' services: $7.3 billion. ¶ Transport, communications and natural resources: $2.6 billion (including $443 million for atomic energy). ¶ Agriculture: $1.4 billion (onefourth of it for support of crop prices). ¶ Social welfare, health and security: $1.7 billion...
Casual & Informal. By 7.30 a.m. Wednesday, the huge, four-motored transport 49149, with five stars on its tailfin, was warmed up and waiting at Nanking Military Airport. It was the same plane which had brought Marshall to China more than a year...
Behind him, on the desk, he left his night's work: the last Sunday comic page of Terry and the Pirates he would ever draw. Its frames held deftly drawn figures, caught in the restrained gestures of a farewell. The fadeout was appropriately up-to-the-minute: a transport plane lifting into a sky that was streaked like the wan sunrise outside his studio...
Seattle's Boeing Airplane Co. last week rolled out the first of ten stratofreighters for the U.S. Army. It proudly announced that it had $200 million in orders for military and commercial planes. But Boeing had been forced to scrap its plans for a two-engine transport, had lost over $1 million in the first half...