Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will you please refer to the issue of TIME dated Aug. 23, p. 21 under the heading Transport, where you depict the scene of the "Chatsworth Wreck" on the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, particularly, the ending of the fourth paragraph, advising the public the Van Sweringen interests had taken the road out of receivership...
...Merchant vessels owned by the Government of the United States will not hereafter, until further notice, be permitted to transport to China or Japan any of the arms, ammunition or implements of war which were listed in the President's Proclamation...
...Death at Daytona" in your Aug. 23 issue, for example: "Suddenly, just after the big transport had drummed some 25 ft. above the highway at the south end of the field, there were three rending crashes, whop! when the ship slammed full-tilt into a foot-thick pine power pole, crack! when the motors ripped out and thudded to earth, and smash! when the rest of the stricken plane bashed into a palmetto thicket...
Socialist Party workers egged the peasants on by promising support for their cause. At Cracow, factory and transport workers staged a 24-hour general strike as a sympathetic gesture. "Solidarity strikes" were called in the Trzebinia and Chrzanow industrial districts...
Since then Inventor Sperry has died, his company has gone through numerous corporate changes and Mr. Morgan has held a dozen or so top-notch aviation jobs -president of Curtiss-Wright Corp., vice president of Eastern Air Transport, president of North American Aviation, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. But he has continued to run Sperry and currently he has offices in Manhattan as president of Sperry Corp., a holding company owning Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc., Ford Instrument Co. Inc. (rangefinders, etc.), Waterbury Tool Co. (hydraulic variable speed transmissions), Vickers. Inc. (hydraulic pumps), Intercontinent Corp. (exporters...