Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry's news. When new fields have been opened, Sun has gone quietly about acquiring leases. Its holdings in Venezuela come to hundreds of thousands of acres. In the East Texas field it owns about 7% of the total acreage. Eight tank steamers and seven motorships transport its oil from Texas to Marcus Hook, about 17 mi. southwest of Philadelphia. There Sun owns 525 acres upon which stands a large refinery (40,000 bbl. a day), a plant that makes barrels and kegs for Sun and the trade. Shipbuilding yards and big dry-docks are at Chester...
...country hop in his plane. By the law of averages you would be dead before your 4,000th flight- five times as dangerous as scheduled airline flying. Contrary to popular opinion it is a trifle less dangerous to take sight-seeing flights or air taxis than to fly by transport plane, largely because "joy hops" are very short. Scheduled flights average between two and three hours, nonscheduled one-half to one hour...
Sponsored by insurance companies, the Actuarial Society endeavored without much success to segregate subgroups of pilots which would rank as good risks for insurance. Some companies now insure pilots by special arrangement, fixing the rate (always high) after a study of his particular type of flying. Among transport pilots the annual mortality rate runs between 20 and 25 per 1,000. Deaths among holders of limited commercial and private licenses occur about one-half as frequently but their rate per hour of flying is higher...
...Polish members the Squadron had a roster of 23. Founder Cooper is the only U. S. member who has made a name for himself in private life. Several of the Poles are high in Polish aviation circles. Author Murray is the only one who still flies commercially. A transport pilot (unemployed), he once went treasure-hunting by air in Yucatan. Though he has written many a tale for pulp magazines, his story of the Kosciuszko Squadron is his first book. Lean, bronzed, reserved, Author-Pilot Murray is married, has one child, lives in Tuckahoe...
Hard hit also are steamship lines, to which the transport of students in these times is a comparatively big business...