Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That planes will fly between North America and Europe, carrying mail & cargo at first, passengers after the first year, President Trippe knows well. But what route? How soon? What sort of schedule?-are questions not even he can answer. Politics plays a heavy part since any transoceanic line requires entree to the ports of at least two nations, probably more. Moreover, Britain's Imperial Airways, Germany's Luft Hansa, France's Aeropostale, Holland's K. L. M., all have bid for a part in any prospective service. Since the surveying job is bigger than any single...
...tests this autumn. The Glenn L. Martin Co. in Baltimore, builder of the other three, is expected to have one ready next summer. Both types of machines, known to Pan American as "clippers," are four-engined monoplanes. On Pan American's present routes they could carry 50 passengers & cargo. With mail only, they could fly regularly, against 30 mi. head winds, the longest jumps over Atlantic or Pacific (Bermuda to Azores - 2,000 mi.; San Francisco to Honolulu...
...cruiser Hai Chi ("Flag of the Sea") earned in 1911 the distinction of being the first Chinese war boat ever to visit the West when she steamed as near as possible to the Coronation of King George V, discharged a cargo of Chinese emissaries in gorgeous silken robes. Built in 1897 the Hai Chi and the equally venerable Hai Shen ("Pearl of the Sea") were still listed last week as the only cruisers in China's Northeastern Squadron. When some weeks ago their commanders, quarreled with sedentary Admiral Shen Hung-lieh, Mayor of Tsingtao, he could do nothing...
...three weeks ago Tanker TN-78, bearing a cargo of molasses, sank in the Mohawk River near Little Falls, N. Y. Few days later the river began to grow white with the bellies of thousands of dead perch, dead carp, dead whitefish. The Conservation Department reported last week that the molasses had glued up the gills through which the perch, carp and whitefish breathed...
...cargo was the Winnipeg "Toilers" basketball team, amateur champions of Canada, who had just been beaten for the A. A. U. title by the Tulsa "Diamond Oilers...