Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gravely the Ministry of Transport last week authorized official investigation of plans tendered the German Government by one Hermann Honnef to build a tower for the production of electricity...
American Airways 6,580 11,485 74% Eastern Air Transport 4,945 7,937 60% Ludington Air Lines 11,304 9,310 18% Northwest Airways 1,866 3,283 76% Pan American Airways 12,562 14,012 9% Transcontinental & Western Air 179 4,214 48% United Air Lines...
...lines carried 86,763 passengers, compared with 66,399 in the first three months of last year. Though flying weather is generally at its worst from January through March, nearly 90% of schedules were flown. Transport officials view the increase as the first fruit of two major policies which came into full play last year: fare reductions and systematic effort to sell through tickets...
...every one knows, air travel throughput the land is but little more expensive (in some cases less) than train-plus-Pullman fare. But few realize that airline tickets can be obtained as easily as any other transportation tickets. All large transport companies have coast-to-coast arrangements with hotels, travel agencies, telegraph companies where schedules can be obtained, tickets purchased. American Airways has more than 9,000 such outlets...
...kill the notion that flying is still an erratic member of the transportation family, airway operators have turned from merely peddling tickets to selling fast, complete transportation facilities combining air, rail & bus. Slogans have been softened from "Fly" to "Travel By Air." Having learned that over two-thirds of their passengers are executives or salesmen, traffic departments are out to educate U. S. business to save time & money through the use of coordinated air transport. Skylines, one of the industry's useful timetable monthlies, quoted last month from the experience of a roving executive who cut a trip from...