Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only two Whirlwind motors hidden in foreign planes and a picture book of other U. S. motors and machines. General Kincaid was ashamed. "I felt," said he last week, "like turning up my coat collar and slinking away." He noted too that "Germany has 60 cities linked by air transport now. Over this network is maintained a constant fast transport of mail, passengers and freight. No other country in the world has anything to compare with...
...caravans. Promoting regular, efficient, transcontinental air-caravans, the "biggest" National City Co. (Manhattan) and the Pacific National Co. (Seattle) are investing between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 in the Boeing Airplane & Transport Co., new, vigorous, ambitious...
...parade proper will start in Boston but Harvard Republicans are tentatively planning to organize their body first in Cambridge, marching around the Yard and College buildings to pick up their constituency. Arrangements are at present being made to transport the Republicans to Boston on a large scale following this exhibition. Torch lights and flares will naturally fill a prominent position in the march...
...platform promises that the Party, if returned to power, will gradually nationalize the coal, transport, power and life insurance businesses and establish minimum wage scales for all earners. Swiftest action is promised to repeal: 1) the Trades Union Act (making a "Coercive" or General Strike illegal); 2) the Trades Disputes Act (restraining unions from making extraordinary levies on their members) ; and 3) the Eight Hour Mines Act (under which British miners now delve an hour a day longer than...
...feed his horses half the oats he did in 1914 and get the same service from them. That is exactly, however, what the public is demanding where it still insists on the 5? fare. If a 5? fare is insisted upon where on an average it costs 8? to transport, why talk about private capital doing that job? It simply cannot be done. Nor can it be done any cheaper by public capital, but we can tax the community instead of the individual rider to make up the difference...