Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several foreign highway commissions have recently-reported with admiration on the 1.250 miles of Nazi-built superspeed highways (Autobahnen). On them British Minister of Transport Leslie Burgin was recently driven for some hours at an average speed of 89 m.p.h. "We have the best motor roads in the world!" cried the Führer, opening the 1938 show. "Soon we will build the cheapest car in the world!"This car, the famed Volkswagen or "people's car," often referred to in Nazi electioneering speeches, has been under development by German engineers since 1933, and the Führer...
...magazine, changes have been plentiful. Since photographs were a major expense, the first issue had only eleven cuts, five of them pencil sketches. In the seventh issue the department of "Finance" became "Business & Finance." "Crime" became a subdivision of "National Affairs" (1925); "Aeronautics" part of a new department, "Transport" (1934). So many people objected to having words put into their mouths (although the facts reported were true) that "Imaginary Interviews" was eliminated in 1924; two years later "People" replaced it. Two departments in the first issue, "Point with Pride" and "View with Alarm," were the nearest TIME ever came...
...TRANSPORT...
...report of the Maritime Commission of the condition of the U. S. Merchant Marine advised shipping lines to (1 build a new luxury liner larger than the Queen Mary, 2. go into the business of transoceanic air transport instead of building superliners, 3 stand on their own feet and not demand Government subsidies, 4 hire only union men, 5 hire more Annapolis graduates as ship's officers...
...other hand the fighting spirit seems to be stronger on the Barcelona Government side as a whole, except for certain sections of Franco's troops, such as the Navarrese and what remains of the Foreign Legion. The Government also seems to have the superiority in motor transport, and this is very important militarily. Any greater result than an initial success in a surprised offensive depends on the rapidity with which attacker and defender can rush up reserves, to deepen or close the breach respectively...