Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...travel in the U. S. is soon to emerge from the spasmodic era of the thermos bottle, the cheese sandwich and the leather jacket. Passengers' safety and comfort are, above all else, to command the attention of the newly formed Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., which announced its plans last week. It will put into operation, within six months or a year, a 48-hour train & plane service between Manhattan and Los Angeles...
...Manhattan-Los Angeles route is only one of many that the Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., plans to cover by train & plane. For example, a daytime airline will operate between Columbus, Ohio, Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul. Not neglected will be Palm Beach, New Orleans, Dallas, San Francisco, Spokane, Denver, Detroit, Cleveland, etc. "I can foresee where we may be using a thousand ships or more within a few years," said Walter Sands Marvin of Hemphill Noyes & Co., one of the 19 directors of Transcontinental Air Transport...
...noted that most railroads had failed to cooperate effectively with motorbus lines and he did not want the same thing to happen with airlines. For four years, he planned T. A. T., Inc., with Mr. Keys and executives of the Santa Fe Railroad, Wright Aeronautical Corp., National Air Transport, Inc. (carriers of U. S. mail), and others. "The time is ripe . . .," said General Atterbury last week when T. A. T., Inc., sprang into the public eye as a $5,000,000 corporation and a board of directors which was worth noting as a group of U. S. air leaders...
Howard Earle Coffin, Earle Reynolds and Col. Paul Henderson, onetime assistant Postmaster General (1922-25), representing National Air Transport...
Sued for Divorce. William H. Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, and a director of the new Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. (see page 22); by Mrs. Emily O'Neil Davies Vanderbilt; at Newport, R. I. She charged neglect to provide...