Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While everybody in the air transport business knew that the new act was far better for all concerned than anything previously devised for air industry control, they knew, too. in the words of Eastern Airlines' plain-talking War Ace Eddie Rickenbacker, that "the McCarran-Lea act will be only as good as the men who comprise the board...
...Safety Board, the President appointed two licensed transport pilots, dashing, mustached Texan Tom Oates Hardin, vice-president of the Airline Pilots' Association, veteran of 10,000 flying hours with American Airlines; and Alabama-born Lieut.-Colonel Sumpter Smith, War flier, aeronautical engineer, since 1936 director of the Division of Airways and Airports of the WPA. The third Safety Board member was not named. Among these appointments, peeled political eyes could discover no one recommended for appointment by dictator-fearing McCarran. But if Franklin Roosevelt gave the back of his hand to Rebel Pat McCarran, it was at the same...
...Into Billings from Seattle at 2:15 the same morning as the train explosion sailed Northwest Airlines Flight Four, a fast, ten-passenger Lockheed Zephyr transport airplane of the same type as that which crashed in Bridger Canyon six months before. After the Bridger Canyon crash, all such Lockheeds were ordered grounded for correction of an apparently faulty tail surface detail. The man who ordered that grounding was Bureau of Air Commerce Inspector A. L. Niemeyer. Later, all the Lockheed Zephyrs were satisfactorily corrected, were actively in the air again. Last week Inspector Niemeyer himself flew into Billings along with...
...transport crashes have ever left so many live witnesses. But this did not solve the mystery. Had a cable parted? Had the tail structure failed again? Had some treacherous atmospheric lasso twisted up from the gullied Montana slopes to haul Flight Four to earth? To these and other questions, Inspector Niemeyer was at week's end seeking the answers...
...President: Flood Control ($375,000,000 authorized), vesting power in the U. S. to take title to all projects it wholly finances; Food & Drugs (requiring more detailed labels, forbidding harmful cosmetics, last work of New York's late Senator Copeland); La Follette Anti-Strike breaking (amendments prohibiting interstate transport of strikebreakers); Permanent Postmasters (ensuring 14,500 life jobs); Wages-&-Hours (its Pennsylvania prototype was last week declared unconstitutional-see p. 12); Mt. Olympus National Park...