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...Trains, No Planes. There were new things to talk about. In San Francisco, a ship that had recently been carrying G.I.s sailed for Argentina with a load of pleasure-bound passengers and commercial cargo. Overtaxed transportation facilities in the U.S. had become a bottleneck. Forty-six Army nurses arrived in San Antonio after a harrowing three-day trip on a troop train from California, sharing two chair cars with G.I.s. One day's food ration was a piece of bread and jelly and a small portion of stew. Half the time their cars had no water. ("Our washroom simply...
...dreadful occurred one December night when a plane carrying 30 nurses back from a Christmas dance in Chabua took off without clearance on a 20-minute flight to Ledo. The plane crashed in landing, killing the 30 nurses and the crew. On an even worse night last January, 33 cargo planes crashed...
Going Home. The U.S. flyers broke all records for such operations. The bright autumn sky over ancient Peiping drummed with the 20th-Century roar of twin-engined aircraft as the planes swept down on the airfield, hour after hour. They disgorged their human cargo, taxied to gas pumps manned by Hopeh coolies, hopped off and were on their way south again within 50 minutes...
With a weather eye on competition from the air, the 78-year-old Grace Line announced its newly designed passenger ship for its postwar services to Latin America. The new $3,500,000 ships, of which Grace has ordered a fleet of nine, will be 13,900-ton combination cargo and passenger vessels. They will carry 52 passengers v. 225 in the biggest of the prewar Grace "Santa" liners...
When pilots were grounded by fierce storms in the mountains, Tom Hardin would often climb into a plane and coolly dive into the weather, frequently went on to Kunming with a vital cargo. Within a year, eight times as much tonnage was being flown into China as when Hardin arrived. Last week Tom Hardin readied a new order: there is no weather in Latin America...