Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barney & Co.* Wall Street houses constantly prepare brochures on U. S. industries but for several years there has been no survey of aviation from a financial point of view of anywhere near such completeness. Its noteworthy facts and opinions on the two great divisions of the industry, manufacture and transport...
...Quill, who once blew up Black-&-Tan lorries in Ireland and still carries a bullet in his left hip. Having worked in the U. S. since 1926, making change in subway stations and selling Catholic art to Pennsylvania miners, Mike Quill three and a half years ago organized the Transport Workers of America, a healthy C.I . 0. affiliate which this summer signed New York's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. to its first closed shop contract. Unionist Quill, who wears a shamrock stickpin and estimates that 80% of his transport workers are fellow Irishmen, jokes: "It took the labor movement...
...trains and munitions dumps, shadow-boxing violently to try to find out who was trying to do what, where. A sign that at least the Moorish reserves of El Caudillo Franco were beginning to run low came from Algeciras last week, where 500 bewildered boys were unloaded from the transport Cindad de Algeciras. None of them appeared to be more than 13 years...
...phenomenally safe are railroads, fewer riders bother to insure. But air travelers with no such feeling of security are anxious to insure beyond their ordinary life insurance, and insurance groups have long pondered what rates they could make to obtain this potential new business. Last week, Air Transport Association of America announced a new $5,000 policy for airline travelers, roughly similar to railroad insurance, and at the same price...
...after January i, the new policies will cover death, or disability by loss of hands, feet or eyes for a fixed sum, $5,000, at a rate of 25? for each four hours flying time during specified trips. Each policy is good for seven days, covers stopovers, delays, alternative transport by rail or steamer and airline conveyance to and from airports. Only hours actually in the air, according to the airline's schedule, are counted in fixing the rate. Slightly under the general rate, Newark-Chicago insurance costs 25? and any transcontinental flight, $1. Policies will be handled...