Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begun tentative surveys of the northern air passage to Europe (TIME, April 25), surrendered to Pan American its active interest in the route, including an exclusive concession in Iceland. Apparent reason: Pan American is better geared by structure and experience for international enterprise, has working arrangements with the big transport lines of Europe...
...south last week Pan American was sending a different sort of expedition, with a less happy mission, into bitter, freezing weather. A Ford transport of Pan American-Grace Line had taken off from Santiago, Chile, with six passengers and a crew of three bound for Buenos Aires. Somewhere over the Andes in a winter blizzard the ship was lost. Hopelessly searchers tried to scour a storm-swept, chasm-striped area 220 mi. long, 150 mi. wide where the plane might have come down...
Lloyd C. Stearman, 33, plane designer, founder and onetime president of United Aircraft & Transport's subsidiary, Stearman Aircraft Co., was made president of reorganized Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Formerly a unit of defunct Detroit Aircraft, Lockheed was purchased at a receiver's sale last month by Walter T. Varney, pioneering West coast airline operator...
...United States' Treasury to the drafted-into-arms, nor was there any heroic self-sacrifice on the part of the most of the men who formed the American Expeditionary Forces. Many of them were drafted, and used every expedient to avoid service. Others of the "veterans" never saw a transport. They have only the precedent of Civil War and Spanish-American War survivors to give them a moral basis for their demand, and thinking people agree that such a precedent should be broken...
...worked into a big twin-engined bomber recently developed by Boeing for the Army. Last week Boeing announced near completion, for autumn delivery, of the first of a fleet of mail-&-passenger planes adapted from the bomber design for United Air Lines (like Boeing a subsidiary of United Aircraft & Transport Corp...