Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week continued their advance, shrinking still further the semicircle they have drawn around Hankow, temporary Chinese capital. For every mile gained, however, the Japanese paid a fancy price in blood and munitions. To replace gaps caused by death and sickness, 26,000 Japanese soldiers moved up the Yangtze on transport ships to aid the 180,000 already engaged in the campaign. Most notable temporary Japanese success last week was the cutting of the Hankow-Peking Railway, about 100 miles north of Hankow, by Japanese cavalry which had completed a 200-mile cross-country drive. Last month the Japanese command boasted...
Last week was National Air Travel Week, staged by U. S. airlines to get more of the U. S. citizenry up in the air. Impressive were carefully-staged transport flying exhibitions, but the most thrilling demonstration was not on the schedule...
...solo-flying hours, college training, hiring-age limits 22 to 28. Prohibitive cost of acquiring so much flying time sends most candidates into the Army, Navy or Marines for two-to-four-year enlistments. There the Government spends up to $35,000 training each pilot. Flying U. S. air transport this year are 1,400 pilots and copilots, pilots averaging $600 monthly, co-pilots from...
...setting up the body yesterday, President Roosevelt said that the rail wage dispute "now threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive the country of essential transport service...
...companion piece, "Sky Giant," is an unconvincing yarn about a school for transport pilots run by army men. The picture shows Harry Carcy, as head of the school, working Richard Dix and Chester Morris 24 hours a day, completely ignoring differences between military and civilian flying, and disregarding nearly all the federal laws governing the latter. Joan Fontaine registers the correct emotions...