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Buttons or bulls — these giant air transports will carry them.
by WILLIAM E. BREESE
IN the blistering heat of the oil fields near Barcelona, Venezuela, an American executive was inspecting his company's holdings. By mid-afternoon, nearly dehydrated, the party had worked around to the sun baked commisary. Entering, the American stopped before the glass panelled refrigerator and, indicating his thirst to the attendant, stared in wide-eyed amazement at row after row of bottled milk standing in the big cooler. The grade A caps bore the name of a Miami dairy — and Florida was 1,600 miles away!
"How in the world did that milk get here?" He asked the manager.
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"By CHpper," was the reply. "We get more than a thousand quarts a week from Miami, along with cheese, butter, ice cream and fresh vegetables. These air shipments of food from the States are the best morale builder and home sickness cure we have down here for the American personnel."
The MiamiVenezuela "milk run" is only one of myriad jobs that are all in a day's work for the Pan American World Airways' cargo clipper fleet serving Latin America.
These aptly named aircraft are the modern counterpart of the clipper ships which a century ago established the United States as a maritime power and pushed its trade frontiers to the Orient and other corners of the globe.
Only a decade past, air cargo was regarded with skepticism. Businessmen viewed it as an emergency means, useAmerican World Airways.