Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Steamship captain. In Sussex, England, he will live ashore with his two sisters, write his memoirs. For 43 years he has commanded great ships. In the Boer War, on his ship, the old Britannic, he carried 37,000 men to Africa. As skipper of the Olympic, converted into a transport during the World War, he carried 30,000 troops and "never lost a soldier." He sank one submarine by gunfire, another by ramming its stern, for which exploits he was knighted. A famed Indian chief who crossed with him on the Olympic made him a chief also, conferred...
Wearing to a close in Los Angeles was the suit of the Government to recover the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve, leased to the Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co. of Edward L. Doheny. Almost a year since the scandal began to brew, it is still sputtering?the Government trying to cancel the lease and make void the contract whereby the Doheny company tapped the California reserve and paid its royalties in tankage constructed for the Government at the Pearl Harbor naval base, Hawaii...
What does it cost to operate an airline? English and French companies generally guard this secret. But the Franco-Rumanian Air Transport Company, which carries passengers, freight and mail from Paris to Bucharest across Central Europe, gave figures. It spent 17,000,000 francs in 1923, or about $850,000, flying 10,090 hr. and 800,000 mi.-something over a dollar a mile. How was the dollar spent? Twenty-five cents for depreciation, 25c. for upkeep of plane and motor, 12c. for fuel and oil, 3c. for automobile transportation, 20c. for pay of pilots and other personnel...
...spirit commonly described as mischievous, to Edward L. Doheny and Harry F. Sinclair, oil merchants. Last week, Judge Paul J. McCormick mounted his U. S. District Court bench in the Federal Building at Los Angeles, and listened to the beginnings of US. v. the Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co. (dominated by Mr. Doheny). There came before him: Lawyer Owen J. Roberts, for the plaintiff, who said he would show that the leases constituted a scheme between Messrs. Fall and Doheny, furtively and illegally contrived, and should therefore be canceled. Lawyer Frank J. Hogan, for the Doheny interests, who said...
...points in the long-standing controversy between the oil companies and the Government." At the same time, Messrs. Chester Swain (counsel for the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey), General Avery De L. Andrews (U. S. representative of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. of Holland and Shell Trading and Transport Co. of London) and Dean Emery (counsel for the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Co.) left Mexico City without issuing statements...