Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week he was ordered to leave Annapolis on board the transport Chaumont, bound for San Francisco, where he will continue indefinitely the role of midshipman on the Pacific fleet. So Midshipman Zirkle, who might have been an ensign with greater pay and privileges, with the opportunity of an honorable discharge in two years, is still a "middy" as long as the Navy wants to keep him. It is expected, however, that he will be allowed to resign in two years when the spirit of the regulation will have been served. The question: if young Midshipman Zirkle is really...
...Eric Campbell Geddes, chairman of Imperial Airways, chairman of the potent Dunlop Rubber Co. (TIME, March 1), onetime (1917-18) First Lord of the Admiralty, and onetime (1919-21) Minister of Transport, was not unprepared to soothe his stockholders with words of cheer...
...equip four heavy trucks with armor plate-each truck to mount two one-pound cannon and four machine guns. Only one truck had been completed. Dissimulating their suspicions, assuring Mr. Sandburn that they believed him when he said the trucks were to be used for pay roll transport, the agents of the Department of Justice began to sleuth. . . . Early one evening last week the trucks rumbled forth, were boarded by 174 "laborers," set out for the Mexican border. At Dalzura, three miles from the frontier, A. A. Hopkins of the Department of Justice pounced with a detachment of well armed...
...taught flying at Houston and Waco, Texas. After the War he returned home, practiced law, be came Secretary of the American Bar Association. His specialty is aeronautic law. He helped formulate the Air Commerce Act, recent ly enacted by Congress. Among other activities he organized the National Air Transport Co. two years ago. Now he resigns all private enterprises to go to his pioneering desk in Washington un der Mr. Hoover. Mr. Hoover, as every one knows, is ubiquitous. If it is not radio, it is farm relief, or aviation. Last week it was mostly aviation with a dash...
...became People's Commissar (Minister) for Transport and later president of the Supreme Economic Council, a post which he held at the time of his death. To Dzerzhinsky-in the opinion of virtually all foreign correspondents at Moscow-belongs almost the sole credit for having inculcated a spirit kindred to "efficiency" into sluggard Soviet industry. Working in sympathy with Trotzsky-also "a practical man"-he has striven literally day and night to combat the visionary, theoretical Marxism which is the chief curse of the Soviets...