Word: airlift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing soon became clear: Harry Truman had not talked over his Eddie Jacobson speech with the front-parlor boys in the State Department, or the political handymen in his "Kitchen Cabinet." And no key Administration official was talking of a letup in the four-way squeeze on Russia: the airlift, the Marshall Plan, the upcoming $15 billion new arms budget, the proposed North Atlantic security pact. The best "educated guess" that his advisers could make was that Harry Truman, all on his own, was just trying a little propaganda campaign to start a little mutual distrust in the Politburo...
Operation Crow. In December-the last month for unrestricted immigration of war brides and war fiancées-migration became a flood. The U.S. organized a special airlift (incongruously named Operation Crow) to bring Europeans across the Atlantic. Chartered planes flew others across the Pacific...
...catch-as-catch-can basis. In Athens, the Robert Lows could figure on no central heating after ten o'clock, candlelight after 1 a.m., and no dancing at all (forbidden because of Greece's "cold war"). In divided, blockaded Berlin, under the now familiar drone of the airlift planes, most bureau-men planned to spend New Year's quietly at home, or, more likely, out covering the news. In Shanghai, where no one could plan more than a few days ahead, TIME Inc.'s staff could not be sure of celebrating at all. A month from...
...under savage and provocative Russian pressure in Berlin, the U.S. refused to abandon Europe's helpless peoples. With that decision, the U.S. accepted the risk of war. Major General William H. Tunner's airlift blazed a roaring, dramatic demonstration of U.S. determination across Europe's troubled skies. Not only to Berliners but to the world, the Berlin airlift was the symbol of the year: the U.S. meant business...
...after Christmas, the great Berlin airlift was six months old. By then, it had carried 700,000 tons of supplies to besieged Berlin. That meant an average of 3,800 tons in an average of 550 flights a day (one-third by Britain's R.A.F.). Last week, Air Secretary Symington said that in 1949, when new planes are put into operation, the daily total can be doubled. So far, 17 Americans and seven Britons have been killed in airlift accidents...