Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industrial flight which they had long feared the Government might frown upon (TIME, March 16). From the Air Transport Association of America's headquarters in Chicago, American, Eastern, Pan American, United and Transcontinental & Western Airlines announced they had abandoned competition in equipment, would collaborate in creating a standardized fleet of huge transport planes. To Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif., current darling of most of the world's leading airlines, went the contract to develop the new type transport...
Cost for the first plane, due next spring, is $500,000, for subsequent ships $250,000. By shouldering this sum jointly, the "Big Five" claim they are saving three-quarters of development expense. By creating such a fleet of supertransports, they expect to jack their passenger and express business into the black, rid themselves forever of the inconvenience of their present dependence upon Government mail subsidies...
...service, advertising, found neither satisfactory, joined the bustling exodus of young U. S. literati who went abroad in the early 1920's. First reporting Miss Thompson did was freelance work for London papers. When she brought in the last interview given by famed Irish Hunger-Striker Terence McSweeney, Fleet Street began to take Miss Thompson seriously. Soon a roving correspondent for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, she achieved another resounding scoop by interviewing ex-Emperor Karl of Austria at the climax of his second attempt to regain the Hapsburg throne in 1922. By 1924 she was chief of the Public...
...moorings. In a hall in Paris a hulking, brown-eyed, brown-bearded Capuchin monk thundered sailor talk at an audience of 500. This week Father Yvon ("Little Yves") was to board the St. Yves, embark on his fourth voyage as chaplain of France's Grand Banks fishing fleet...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet the Earl David Beatty, Viscount Borodale of Wexford and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and of Brocksby, 65, commander of the British battle cruiser squadron at the controversial Battle of Jutland; of a severe cold aggravated by marching in a drizzle at King George V's funeral; in London...