Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though a shudder ran through the whole air transport business, public confidence was apparently not seriously shaken. Last week's bookings were reported normal. Meanwhile airlines increased their already enormous precautions to prevent a recurrence of last winter's disasters. Schedules were slowed up, deicers fitted, cruising range extended, U.A.L. quickly raised the instrument flying altitude over the mountainous stretch of the "worst U. S. airplane accident'' from...
...value of the Merchant Marine from the naval standpoint lies in the fact that in time of war American merchantmen can furnish without delay the necessary auxiliaries of transport and supply ships...
...differed in one respect from that conducted by others. While the safety factor has always been recognized as the most important part of the problem, the Harvard bureau has been equally interested in the factor of congestion as it affects the fullest and most efficient use of automotive transportation. Thus, much of its research energy has been and will continue to be devoted to a study of the "business" aspects of street and highway transport. This is especially demonstrated in its studies of new and more efficient types of street construction which it is gratifying to note is now receiving...
Their initial cost is some 50% more than that of conventional gasoline engines. Newest types do not work directly on the transmission but generate electric power that propels a vehicle without clutch or gear shift. Last year New Jersey's Public Service Coordinated Transport bought 27 Diesel-electrics from Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Co. for $12,000 each and at once put them into passenger service. Since then the New Jersey fleet has rolled up 1.000,000 carefully tabulated, experimental miles and the company's enthusiastic report of Diesel results put new bees in many a busman...
...Surely the mild-mannered Mr. Green is not going to march 3,000,000 members of the American Federation of Labor against an equal number of the Committee for Industrial Organization! He might be charged with disturbing the peace. Or some member of the ladies' auxiliary of the Transport Workers might hit him with a powder puff...