Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general-staff school in Kunming instructed members of the Chinese General Staff. American medical officers trained alongside Chinese doctors. Veterinary, signal corps and transport schools taught American methods...
...been a top trouble-shooter for the Army's Air Transport Command-and boss of the Hump lifeline into China-last week cheerfully took on more trouble. With the store creases still fresh in his mufti, tall, tough Brigadier General Thomas Hardin went to work as executive vice president of TACA Airways' 13,000 miles of loosely knit air routes south of the border. His first move was to hire four of his top-ranking buddies in A.T.C. to help him run TACA...
Barnstorming leveled off into serious business in 1927 when Hardin helped found Texas Air Transport, began regular mail & passenger service between Dallas, Brownsville and Galveston...
When American Airlines' fast-growing predecessor, American Airways, swallowed T.A.T.'s successor, Southern Air Transport, in 1929, Hardin became American Airways chief pilot and general manager. Nine years later, a member and later chairman of the Air Safety Board of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, he helped write the safety regulations that made U.S. commercial aviation the safest in the world. Later, for the Defense Supplies Corp. he helped purge Latin American aviation companies of Nazi control, then joined the Air Corps as a lieutenant colonel...
...Departments and the CAB,* is the first study of its kind. Its basic assumption: aircraft production over the next few years will be twice that of 1940 but less than 5% of the planes built in 1944. Spokesman Baker said that the industry would make between 325 and 475 transport planes a year, and 20,000 to 45,000 small planes for private flyers. From these two sources, the industry would get a maximum gross of $295,000,000 annually. But, butted Dr. Baker: this was nowhere near enough. To keep the military aircraft potential from rusting away, the Government...