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Minus "passenger comforts" (food cupboards, pillows, oxygen, stewardesses), two 21-passenger DC-35 were turned over to the freight run, still equipped with seats for quick reconversion if necessary. But ground crews managed to pack in 4,000 to 6,000 Ib. of high-priority cargo (including mail) for each flight...
...jacked up with Rube Goldbergian extra belts, pulleys and paddles. But by the following Sunday the order was done, four hours before the promised delivery time. By that time the plant was half-wrecked, as equipment collapsed under the strain. Then the Army asked for another 200,000 Ib. by the following weekend. At that point Standard threw in its big Pittsburgh grease plant, while more Army trucks dashed all over western Pennsylvania gathering up extra drums and materials...
...offering odds as to who will relieve Fielding. The following quotations came hot off the back room board as we went to press; P. Bennett, 1 1/2 -2; J. Donegan 15-7 1/4; A. Murphy 2 1/4 -1/2; T. Sweeny 5 rubles to a dime; C. Collins 2 ib steel to an ounce of copper...
...Sabata, owner of a general store in Dwight, Neb. (pop. 294) thought the recipient of his letter might like to know the price of eggs and such things. Meticulously he set them down: "Coffee, 29? a Ib.; sugar, 8? a Ib.; beans, 9? a Ib.; eggs, 32? a dozen; corn meal, 5 Ib. for 17?; overalls, $1.75 a pr." Added Storekeeper Sabata: "My family consists of four girls, ages 21, 19, 16 and one year. I wouldn't do my government much good for soldiers, having all girls, but I did my part in 1918. I was in France...
...moment "not a single plane originally conceived solely to carry cargo is in service in the Western Hemisphere," but one-quarter of all the two-and four-engined planes scheduled for production this year will be cargo transports. By 1945, transports weighing from 100,000 to 120,000 Ib. will be "flying in quantity." Their ton-mile capacity will be ten times that of today's "work horse of the airlines," the 25,200-lb. Douglas...