Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the opening of the Newark Municipal airport, the purchase by the National Air Transport Inc. of eight new Curtiss Falcon biplanes, the installation by the government of a lighted airway between Salt Lake City and San Francisco made possible in the near future a coast to coast 24-hour air mail service. Last week also saw the inauguration of a direct international airmail line, linking New York, Montreal and Mexico City...
...headline was made possible by R. B. Gentles, grain broker, as he started on the first westbound trip of the Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. Others who traveled on the first eastbound T. A. T. express were a businesswoman who wanted to catch a boat to France, a physician who was in a hurry to see his sick daughter, the Mayor of Fargo, N. Dak., several railroad executives...
...taken one factor into account. Frank H. Claret is captain of the Atlantic Transport liner Minnewaska. He is as jovial and popular a skipper as is to be found on the high seas. On his account, travelers who are connoisseurs of captains choose the Minnewaska. He was the youngest of 18 children, ran away to sea at the age of 13, and during his motley career has supervised the tiller of every sort of craft. But Captain Claret's capability, his geniality and prowess as a raconteur do not constitute a complete estimate of the man. There is linked...
...symbolically-minded said it was practically foreordained that oft-rescued Claret should rescue the distrait Courtney. Impalpable ministers of safety and service hover about the master of the Minnewaska. To accomplish this feat of systematic searching the ship was diverted 341 miles from its track. The Atlantic Transport Company wirelessed the Captain, "You were fortunate to carry out rules of sea and save souls, no matter conditions." The plane was not saved...
...however, winked knowingly among themselves, and the winged lion on the column smiled a sophisticated Venetian smile." For Eric, magnificent blond, had just glided his plane on to the Grand Canal, and turned amorous attention to his passenger. $37,500 was the fare she had paid him to transport her, Catherine, decadent American college girl, from the Eiffel Tower to Java, and Philip, her (chief) lover. Meanwhile Eric served very nicely as more than pilot. It became necessary to draw the curtains of the airship, but the Italian populace continued to applaud hilariously, their gondolas created a serious traffic...