Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pass. . For the present, Chicagoans and Texans alike are content to rejoice that their lette. 3 back and forth about cows, and about oil, cotton, shipping and mail-order goods, are in transit a whole business day less than they used to be. Last week the National Air Transport Inc. inaugurated daily service with a fleet of airmail trucks between Chicago and Dallas, the Post Office Department's third contract air route...
...trade unionism so firmly grounded. Last week it was estimated that as many able bodied workers are controlled, as to strikes, by the Trades Union Congress as there are men, women and children in New York City. The unionists operate, in normal times, virtually all the land and sea transport services, the mines, most heavy manufacturing and the building trades. Last week these men, together with "the army of unemployed workers" (rarely fewer than a million strong in the British Isles since 1920), thought chiefly in terms of hours, shillings, bread and shelter, as that midnight approached...
...amid a salute of 19 guns, an honor previously reserved for princes of the blood. Mounted on a charger, he reviewed for over an hour a military procession in which walked and rode native warriors in every sort of brilliant and picturesque attire together with every device for military transport, from Arabian dromedaries to Italian tanks...
...their wives have reached Benkulen, in the Dutch East Indian island-continent of Sumatra. The wives are adapting themselves to the comforts of a miserable hill-perched village, while the scientists are setting up sky-scouring 'scopes. Nearby, anchored in the blaze of ocean, is the naval transport, Chaumont, nest of balloons, dirigibles, airplanes. Both the Swarthmore men and the U. S. Navy men are preparing for three weird minutes on Jan. 14, when the sun will be blackened, the earth move to the dance of cosmic shadows. The terror of chattering natives will be reported by the scientists...
Juan T. Trippe, youthful Vice President of the new U. S. Colonial Air Transport Corporation, set out last week to find out how swiftly a commercial aircraft could make the 300-mile run from Miami, Fla., to Havana, Cuba. Arrived at Havana, two hours and five minutes after leaving Miami, Mr. Fokker announced that their average speed of 144 miles an hour constituted a record for a non-stop flight of such length by a commercial airplane...