Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention of U. S. citizens interested in the question of what commercial aviation company shall be Uncle Sam's mailman on the New York-Chicago leg of the transcontinental air mail route. "Why," asked figurers, "did Postmaster General New award the New York-Chicago contract to the National Air Transport Co.'s bid of $1.24 a pound when the North American Airways Co. bid $1.23 a pound, and when Capt. Earle F. Stewart of Manhattan bid 35¢ a pound?" Computers added also that U. S. Comptroller General McCarl had previously ruled that the Government should accept the lowest...
...Nationalists. ¶ Routed Shantung troops pleaded and begged to be taken into the international city, and they were allowed this refuge by the great powers as fast as they could be disarmed. The Japanese especially welcomed these defeated troops and put some 2,000 on a Japanese transport, late in the week, for transport back to Shantung where they belong. ¶ Looting by individual soldiers of both factions in the Chinese city went on unchecked for 36 hours, and was carried to such extremes that many Chinese men and women roamed the streets disconsolate, stripped. ¶ Comparative order was restored...
Fear hag-rode the U. S. Army Transport Chateau Thierry into San Francisco last week. Mumps, influenza and Death were aboard, and at San Francisco were hospitals. The boat had left Brooklyn a fortnight before. On it were 125 first-class passengers, including 13 members of the U. S. House of Representatives. There were also 950 enlisted men under command of Brigadier General Henry G. Learnard who was to transship some of his detachment at Honolulu for service in China. The ship's crew numbered 147. Altogether there were some 1,200 people on board, and three Army doctors...
...Coolidge selected him as a member of the board to investigate the northern flight in the Shenandoah. In the World War, Bartlett wore the strips of Lieutenant-Commander in the American Navy. During this period his knowledge of the North Atlantic was used in planning the trips of the transport ships...
...Powers. At Washington, U. S. President Coolidge and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur prepared stealthily to deal with the Chinese. Lest it be thought that the U. S. was rushing too many armed forces to China (TIME, Jan. 31) these statesmen designed a stratagem. They caused the transport Chaumont to sail from San Diego, Calif., loaded to the scuppers with U. S. marines last week, but announced that she was merely sailing for "a secret destination in the Orient." British statesmen, not so subtle, baldly admitted that 12,000 British troops were being rushed to China last week-thereby enraging...