Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many an employer otherwise excluded from or complying with the Act is certain to become unpleasantly aware of Section 15: ". . . It shall be unlawful for any person [excepting railways, and other common carriers] to transport, offer for transportation, ship, deliver or sell in commerce, or to ship, deliver or sell with knowledge that shipment or delivery or sale thereof in commerce is intended, any goods in the production of which any employe was employed in violation of Section 6 [wages] or Section 7 [hours...
...Paramount) is the first Technicolor picture with an aeronautical background. It is also the first picture with an aeronautical background that attempts to take the long view of flying, not as hazardous profession or exciting adventure but as the latest and most spectacular chapter in the long history of transport. Starting with the Wright Brothers' first, incredible, 59-second hop, Men With Wings proceeds, with great pictorial beauty and praiseworthy attention to authenticity, to run through the whole amazing chronicle of aviation. For its intention and for its photographic content the picture deserves to rank...
...signed. Its drafters will have to take into consideration first the quantitative air strengths of the great powers. These were estimated at Washington last week in quarters close to the Navy Department. Based on figures for all kinds of effective fighting craft (day & night bombers, fighting, reconnaissance, transport) they follow...
From the naval reserve base at Floyd Bennett Field on Long Island one morning last week, a small motor truck containing a radio transmitter set off for an unannounced point an hour's drive away. Hour or so later an American Airlines transport ship took off from the same field. Mounted horizontally just behind the throttles between the pilot and co-pilot was a circular dial face marked off in degrees like a compass. Over this swung an indicator hand. A little tuning picked out the truck's signal, and the hand froze like a pointer...
Chief purpose of any direction finder in transport flying is not alone to locate ground points but to help determine the plane's position in flight. After a ground station is tuned in on the ship's radio receiver in this new Sperry-RCA apparatus, a loop antenna suspended beneath the plane rotates automatically until it is at right angles to the source of the signal, registering the bearing on the dial. Where two or more such bearings intersect is approximately the plane's position...