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Already old two-and three-masters are being rerigged and recaulked; fishing and lumber schooners are bidding for commercial cargoes (and getting them); and importers all along the Caribbean are beginning to specify "Dispatch via sail" when steamers are not available. This means slower and more uncertain voyages, higher insurance, and cargo rates that are all the traffic will bear; but in many cases it may be the only means of getting badly needed supplies...
...south, airline-operated cargo planes have toted thousands of pounds of U.S. currency (for payrolls) to Panama and Puerto Rico; tons & tons of blood plasma, surgical instruments, other medical supplies to Trinidad, Virgin Islands, other U.S. military bases in the Caribbean...
...Meantime, other airline-operated cargo planes regularly shuttle between 120 Army air bases in the U.S. Their load: troops, complete jeeps, tank parts, light field guns, aircraft engines, other military items...
These are but a small sample of the jobs now being done by airline-operated cargo planes working with the newly formed Army Air Service Command. When the Army last month bought outright almost half the 324-plane U.S. airline fleet, it kept 63 planes to use as troop transports. The Army then leased 96 remaining planes back to the airlines, gave them the job of carrying every ounce of Army air freight in the Western Hemisphere. The Ferry Command flies most of the Army's freight going to Africa, Australia, other far-off places...
Each of the 96 airline-operated sky-freighters now flies close to 1,500 miles daily with up to 3,500 pounds of cargo-plus officers and soldiers. All told they haul a smacking 500 tons a week, four times as much as Army pilots ever carried. Beamed one Army colonel: "a magic carpet of transportation." Boasted tough, air-wise General Henry J. F. Miller, drafted from Wright Field to head the ASC: "the hardest-working planes in the world...