Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Burton Robbins, Assistant Secretary of War, attempted to change seats with a mechanic in a trimotored Fokker transport plane, lost his balance, was thrown to the floor of the cabin, suffered a fractured collarbone, two broken ribs. The accident occurred during a flight from Columbus, Ohio, to Washington...
...Chicago, motors were ready to transport the Hoover party up Michigan avenue and Sheridan road to Vice President Dawes' house in Evanston. The Vice President handled the thronging newsgatherers while the Nominee kept what he called a "back seat." The Dawes dictum was that prosperity and competent government were the Issues...
...Chilean Naval Ministry at Santiago announced, last week, withholding all details, that the transport Anagamos sank with the loss of 291 lives, after running upon a rock near Point Nordhuila, and that Captain Corbeta Ismael Suarez not only did not leave his ship but committed suicide upon the bridge...
Reviewing the record of British civil aviation in 1927, the Air Ministry was able to announce proudly, last week, that for the third consecutive year not a single passenger was killed in scheduled commercial flights. The U. S. listened enviously, with reason. Air mail and air transport operations in the U. S. in 1927 were marred by six accidents, seven deaths...
...immediate cause was the formation of Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. with plans for a train & plane passenger service covering the U. S. (see p. 22). Five hundred thousand shares of T. A. T., Inc. common stock at no par value were offered on the New York curb market. They found plenty of takers at $25, quickly jumped to the vicinity of $30. Yet it was reported that $12.50 was the price at which T. A. T., Inc. was privately placed by underwriters...