Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further, the report urged that neutral officers be placed in charge of the forces guarding frontiers in the Balkans, and that the machinery for a "Conciliation Commission" to function in case of hostile incidents along the frontiers be prepared and held in readiness. Similarly the report urged that special transport and communication facilities be accorded by the governments of the Balkans to officials of the League in the event of another war scare...
...awarding of contracts this day for the carrying of the mail by air transport over five routes in widely separated sections of the country marks an epoch in the history of the American postoffice. Upon the result of the enterprise this day entered upon depends the future of aerial transport in the United States...
...Chicago-Dallas-Fort Worth to National Air-Transport, Inc., of Chicago...
...Hoover told of a survey of commercial aviation throughout the world. In Europe in 1923, 49,000 passengers were carried by air transport, and in 1924, 85,000 passengers. In 1923, 4,700,000 pounds of goods, including mail, were carried. (The U. S. Air Mail carried 232,513 pounds of mail in the year ending June 30 last-the first of the transcontinental day and night service.) None of the European companies are selfsupporting. All receive Government subsidies of from 50% to 95% of their costs...
...delegation of 17 officers and directors of the National Air Transport, Inc., headed by Howard E. Coffin, President of that com- pany, called on Mr. Coolidge to present a plan for a commercial aviation service from New York City to Chicago and Dallas...