Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible for an air traveler to fly completely around the country for an average cost of 9? per mile. The longest air line and at present the only transcontinental one is the Boeing Air Transport. Its Chicago-San Francisco run is 1,943 mi. Its nearest overland competitor is Pacific Air Transport's Seattle-Los Angeles...
William Edward Boeing, 47, founded Boeing and soon bought control of Pacific. He entered the transport business to make money out of mail, express and passenger carriage, but more especially to have sure buyers of the planes he was making at Seattle. He got into plane-making literally by accident. One day in 1917 he grew angry because his private plane cracked up with him. He decided that he could build better ones. A rich lumber and mining man, he could and did put vast wealth into the industry. His factory is now rated the largest...
United Aircraft & Transport announced last week the acquisition of Stout Air Services Inc., since 1927 a passenger-carrier between Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago. The Stout line with Boeing Air Transport (San Francisco-Chicago) are to be the nucleus of a transcontinental system...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh opened his mouth last week in the Manhattan offices of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, to explain to reporters the plans of the Transcontinental Air Transport Co. of which he is "technical adviser." As he (lid so, something escaped about his outlook on his own future. Asked about an age limit for pilots, he replied: "I can't recognize that there is any limit. I will continue flying until I am no more able to handle a machine...
...Manhattan last week Richard Farnsworth Hoyt and Frederick Brant Rentschler, two of the most potent U. S. air financiers, made plans to synchronize thousands of miles of airlines. Shortly it should be possible to air-tour over their systems-United Aircraft & Transport, and Aviation Corp. of the Americas, repectively-from Chicago to San Francisco, to Los Angeles, to Mexico City, thence to Miami and the West Indies, or to Panama and Ecuador. The deal to cooperate was consummated after many interruptions. United's Rentschler was interrupted frequently by needs of his seven subsidiary companies...