Word: overland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cubic feet at about $2.25 a foot. After the Norris Dam spread Norris Lake over part of their holdings, Imperial Marble continued to make shipments by boat over the lake to be delivered in Knoxville. These shipments, costing 21? a cubic foot more than overland shipments, figured prominently in Major Berry's first estimate that the TVA had damaged his mineral holdings by $1,633,000. the complaint he filed with TVA before he was appointed Senator this year...
...realize that you will undoubtedly receive numerous letters expressing both amazement and doubt as to the overland trip from Colombia to Panama through this comparatively unexplored and almost impenetrable jungle. We, therefore, take this opportunity to reassure all such scribes. We have records to show that the pack train was serviced all the way with axle grease and the latest in horse shoes by our service stations, which same extend in an unbroken chain all the way from the Colombian border to Panama City (?). No doubt but that the trail blazed by Señor Divo is the forerunner...
Born in Ohio, raised on a New Mexico ranch, he was "married, divorced and bankrupt" before he was 21. After going broke he settled down to work for the Overland used-car agency in Los Angeles until one day he heard that a steam laundry was badly needed in Tampico, Mexico, to wash oil workers' dirty shirts...
...launch while taking off from Trinidad's Port-of-Spain harbor, filled with water (TIME, April 20, 1936). Even that mishap was more like a collision between surface craft than the sort of accident that commonly befalls airplanes. The record of P.A.G., which flies the difficult South American overland routes, is less excellent but still good: 32 lives have been lost in nine years of operation covering 40,000,000 passenger miles...
...same article, TIME misstated the order in which "overweather" ships will be supplied by Boeing Aircraft Co. to TWA and Pan American. Boeing's first two four-motored overland transports will be "stratosphere" ships (air-conditioned for passengers up to 20,000 ft.) for Pan American, designed to embody high flight principles worked out by Pan American research with Boeing engineers since 1929. The next six, for TWA, may be similarly adapted for high altitudes if the 500-hr. test flying required by Pan American on its ships is satisfactory...