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Word: transamerican (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
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...hello, hello" in English, but the plane was not seen again. Days later the crew of a trawler sighted the body of a man clad in life belt and what looked like aviator's clothing floating upright in the North Sea. In Cleveland President Edwin G. Thompson of Transamerican Airlines, sponsor of the projected air route, declared that Pilot Edward Preston would soon take off on a similar testflight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights of the Week, Aug. 24, 1931 | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...Sikorsky amphibian 'Untin' Bowler, which was broken by floating ice and sunk in the Hudson Strait. "Shorty" Cramer continued to preach the feasibility of the route, finally aroused active interest of Thompson Aeronautical Corp. of Cleveland, operator of mail passenger and express routes in Michigan (Transamerican Airlines Corp., subsidiary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Biggests | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

Near Chicago Richard Stanley Thompson, 4, went wading, got in too deep, was brought out lifeless. When artificial respiration failed, his father, Traffic Manager Stanley Thompson of Transamerican Airline Corp. in Chicago, was notified. Father Thompson seized a pulmotor. leapt into an airplane, rushed to the scene, after an hour's stubborn work restored his son to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Hoch | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

Engine. Over Lake Erie flew an amphibian of Transamerican Air Line, bound from Cleveland for Detroit. The engine tore partly loose from its mounting, caught fire. Pilot Otis Beard "sat her down" on the water, put out the fire, signaled to a Coast Guard boat for a tow. His four passengers, too, continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Right Side Up | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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