Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...towers arise, honeycombed with elevators. Hundreds of feet in the air vast platforms, with towns upon them, airdromes, sunshine and the fresh winds of heaven. The platforms are erected over forests, rivers, lakes, like the stilted cities of Borneo and Siam, or the fabulous hanging gardens of Babylon. With transport facilities developing as they are, said Kiesler, "distance no longer exists. . . . We can live where we like...
...lack of boats and galleys face Charles XII† of Sweden with disaster at the siege of Frederikshall? Emmanuel Swedenborg invented a machine to transport them overland. Did youths need verses in Latin for ladies? They applied to Swedenborg. Did house chimneys smoke or the deaf suffer? Swedenborg cured the chimneys and gave the deaf an ear trumpet. Did the world need an interpretation of the Scriptures? Swedenborg furnished...
...Drake Hotel, Chicago, 35 of the nation's most famed business men held, last week, a secret conference. They had come in private cars from the four corners of the country, and they organized in a few hours the largest air transport project in the world. The company was capitalized at $10,000,000, and $2,000,000 was at once subscribed-enough to start immediate operation of a New York-Chicago overnight route. The list of officers and directors of the National Air Transport Corporation is imposing. President is Howard E. Coffin of Detroit, whose reputation was made...
...infringe upon the educational rights of individual states. They tell people who oppose it that their opposition arises from blindness to the blessings of Federal assistance. They predict bigger and better national education weeks, governmental eradication of illiteracy, substitution of the well-equipped district school (perhaps with motor transport for distant pupils) for the ill-equipped "little red schoolhouse." The dissenters are commonly said to be persons interested in private and parochial schools, persons suspicious of Federal "red tape," persons who believe that the various state educational departments are capable of performing their duties without increased Federal supervision and advice...
...Edsel Ford witnessed the plane's departure. Mrs. Henry Ford was on hand to stow the first parcel of freight in the plane. "Ultimately," said Edsel Ford, "we hope to link our plants at Chicago, at St. Louis, at St. Paul, at Iron Mountain, Mich., with air transport lines...