Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army, the Navy and experimenters for air transport lines have made thousands of blind landings. But last week Pennsylvania-Central Airlines-which has operated over the Allegheny Mountains between Washington and Cleveland for eight years without a fatality-set a ship full of passengers down on Pittsburgh's all-paved airport solely by instruments-and thus claimed to have made the first commercial blind landing. There are Army, Navy and airline blind landing systems. The one used in this case is called "Air-Track," a radio-guided approach system designed to standardize and safeguard all landings, but still awaiting...
According to optimists, the future of air transport is embryonically visible in the laboratories, wind tunnels, charts, tables, mathematical equations, blueprints and brains of aeronautical scientists. From the eggs of experiment, theory and calculation, the optimists hope, will hatch like shimmering larvae the bigger, safer, faster airplanes of tomorrow. According to pessimists, there is not likely to be much future if the dark blots on the present scene are not removed. Both dark blots and bright prospects were discussed in Manhattan last week when the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences met at Columbia University...
Died. Gerald ("Jerry") Vultee, 38, aircraft designer (Vultee Transport), and wife, Sylvia Parker Vultee, 27; when his own plane caught fire in mid-air and crashed on Wilson Mountain, near Flagstaff, Ariz...
Died. Captain Bruce Richardson Ware II, U. S. N., 50, whose gun crew on the transport Mongolia fired the first U. S. shot in the War on April 19, 1917, sinking a German submarine; of heart disease; in San Diego, Calif...
...particularly pleased that their country's economy was supported by the narcotics trade, but what were they to do about it? The English had grabbed their oil, and in their vast and mountainous country-one-fifth the size of the U. S.-there were no arteries of transport on which agricultural or mineral wealth could be carried down to the sea and the world's markets. The poppy's drowsy seed, very valuable and very light, was the logical, evolutionary Persian product. A camel could carry thousands of dollars' worth very satisfactorily on its back. Just...