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Miracle Man Kaiser had had a little more trouble selling that scheme. The Army & Navy were against it. They needed scarce materials and technicians for their standard combat and transport craft. Planemaker Grover Loening told committeemen how, as a representative of WPB, he looked over Kaiser's plan and reached the same conclusion as the military men. WPB's aviation experts figured Henry Kaiser didn't know an airplane from a Sherman tank and that his promise to get the first model into the air within 20 months only proved...
...poor, had no prospects of jobs or any training. They were the 1947 version of the Okies who had fled from the Southwest's Dust Bowl. Instead of riding the highways, the Puerto Ricans rode the skies. Most of them arrived in the bucket seats of converted Army transport planes, operated by charter airlines at bargain rates. By last week, the migration from their crowded, poverty-stricken land to the U.S. was at flood tide...
...Some charter airlines carry Puerto Ricans back to San Juan for as little as $37.50 a head. The fare on scheduled airlines: $130. A fortnight ago, a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing found that the converted C-47 transport which carried 21 to death in a Florida crash (TIME, July 21) had been overloaded by about one ton of Puerto Ricans and their baggage. Aboard when the plane crashed were 36 people...
...Balkan shipping on the Danube, all Rumanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian air transport...
...hundred eighty Hungarian enterprises in oil, aluminum, banking, insurance, manufacturing, mining and transport...