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Admiral Nimitz announced the results: one cargo ship sunk, others set afire or damaged; a total of 135 Jap planes destroyed against a loss of six U.S. planes...
Originally designed (by Boeing) as a combat plane, Grandpappy long since has been only a packhorse. His insigne is an overloaded elephant. These days he thunders around the Caribbean carrying great quantities of cargo - as much as 15 tons pay load per trip. Flying from the Canal Zone to Trinidad is routine for Grandpappy, whose great gas tanks enable him to fly 24 hours at a stretch...
...shareholders, in 1942. The 12,000-mile Canadian Pacific Air Line, which blankets most of the Dominion with vital north-south routes, but is barred from the lucrative transcontinental service by the Government-owned Trans-Canada Air Lines, carried 71,000 passengers and 11.5 million Ib. of mail and cargo. Earnings from C.P.-owned telegraph and express services, hotels, grain-and ore-carrying ships on the Great Lakes, and grain elevators scattered across the prairies, were high...
...bombers made the most of it. They sank 19 Jap ships: two light cruisers, three destroyers, one ammunition ship, one seaplane tender, two oilers, two gunboats, eight cargo ships. Apparently the two carriers had pulled out. Only losses reported by the Navy: 17 planes. One ship was "moderately damaged...
Flood from the West. Made-in-America supplies were still rolling into England last week. At one medium-sized port, U.S. troops and British civilian workers swarmed aboard cargo ships, unloaded tanks, jeeps, guns; unloaded and assembled 65-ton diesel locomotives, 300-ton floating cranes; attached wheels and accessory equipment to scores of tank cars...