Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic leaders made the bill a party measure. ¶Completed drafting an omnibus economy bill to save $263,277.000 by: 1) cutting all Federal wages over $1.000 by 11%; 2) consolidating the Army & Navy into one department; 3) reducing the compensation paid hospitalized veterans; 4) abolishing the Army & Navy transport service. The President would be empowered to consolidate but not abolish overlapping executive boards & bureaus...
...Lake Maracaibo District. On the island of Aruba, D. W. I.; a refining plant of 115,000-bbl. daily capacity. At Hamburg: an asphalt plant. On the high seas: 29 tankers of 1,700,000-bbl. capacity. These are the principal foreign properties of Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co., 95%-owned by Standard Oil of Indiana. Last week Indiana's President Edward George Seubert was thinking of these properties when he said: "There has been a strong trend away from the traditional policy of free importation of oil, and sooner or later it is likely that a prohibitive tariff...
...islands of the Caribbean and flicks all Central America with its tail, a U. S. salesman can now hurry with never an hour lost on a train. For Pan American Airways Corp. (holding company for the system) announced the purchase of practically all of Cuba's air transport industry, the 14 airports, eleven planes, 850 miles of route, of Campania Nacional Cubana de Aviation, S. A. Though Compania Nacional will be operated as an independent unit, its personnel kept intact (largely as balm to Cuban national feeling), it will be coordinated with Pan American's three trunk lines...
Only the week prior President Trippe had struck another railroad legend from his map of the world's biggest air transport system. Planes had begun to drone in regular service from Vera Cruz, low on the Gulf of Mexico, up to Mexico City, following the old route of Conquistador Cortes, of General Winneld Scott and his U. S. Army...
During the past season many of the settlement houses have availed themselves the use of the Phillips Brooks beach wagon, which is loaned to them free of charge. This is used to transport groups of boys from the settlement houses to and from basketball games and to and from the camps that several of the houses maintain in the country. Harvard student volunteers often take their boys' club for a ride in the country or on a trip to some point of interest...