Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truck operators, lays the whole license ruction at the doors of railway lobbyists in State Legislatures. Last week, while the Pennsylvania-New Jersey feud went on, a joint committee of railroad presidents under President William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania met in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station with motor transport executives under the leadership of Vice President Alfred Harris Swayne of General Motors. The conferees issued an amiable announcement following the meeting which failed to conceal the fact that they had pointedly agreed to disagree: "It would be impractical to ask either the railway group or the highway users group...
...maintaining in Harrisburg that "Pennsylvania was losing very extensively because trucks from other States were using up our roads . . . the law is a wise one," one after another, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and New York automatically cancelled their reciprocal license agreements with Pennsylvania and hired Pennsylvania motor transport was banned from their highways. Hundreds of tons of fruit & vegetables had rotted around Pennsylvania's borders by the time a truce between New Jersey and Pennsylvania was reached. Pennsylvania was to enforce its new law "within reason." New Jersey would limit its license demand to "common carriers...
...line is an outgrowth of the old Transcontinental Air Transport, over which Col. Lindbergh flew the first 48 hr. air-&-rail trip three years ago. Last year it began to operate an all-air service for passengers, but included an overnight stop in Kansas City. It took 36 hours. The new Comet schedule was made possible by perfecting night-flying facilities...
Commercial transport operators puffed with pride over the San Diego incident as a graphic demonstration of advances in what they call "instrument" (rather than ''blind") flight. In addition to radio, both for beacon reception and conversation, the United Air Lines plane was equipped with rate-of-climb indicator, artificial horizon and directional gyro, helpful instruments which the Navy planes lacked...
...present all U. S. transport pilots are being trained to comply with a new Department of Commerce order effective Jan. 1. After that date all pilots in interstate passenger service must: 1) have logged 1,200 hr. solo in the last eight years, 500 hr. cross country; 2) have 75 hr. solo night flight; 3) in a hooded cockpit, maneuver a plane through turns, banks, climbs, spirals, recover from stalls, spins, skids, slips, and head the plane on a specified course...