Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treated him well. When he was finally surrendered to the Cook County Sheriff the next afternoon he looked rested and refreshed and his white linen suit was crisp. Awaiting him in Manhattan by prearrangement was the famed criminal defense lawyer, Samuel Leibowitz. Toward midnight, in a Hearst-chartered transport. Prisoner Irwin was flown to New York City to face the murder charges. It was his first flight, would probably be his last...
...grueling six-month search for his son-in-law, Pilot S. J. Samson. Last Dec. 14, Pilot Samson took off from Los Angeles on his regular run to Salt Lake City in a Western Air Express Boeing. After stopping at Las Vegas, Nev., the twin-motored transport droned on north into a wintry night and oblivion (TIME, Dec. 28). Aboard the plane, which last reported hitting 199 m.p.h. at 10,000 ft. under a "high overcast," were four passengers, a co-pilot and pretty Hostess Gladys Witt, whose marital indecisions had been making headlines. When the plane never arrived...
Married. Howard Earle Coffin, 63, industrialist (Southeastern Cottons, Inc., Sea Island Co., Hudson Motor Car Co., National Air Transport, Inc.), host to Presidents Coolidge and Hoover at his Georgia coast estate; to Gladys Baker, 39, Florida newspaper woman; her third husband; in Manhattan...
...rocket offers him freedom from the air. From the standpoint of science, the rocket offers the only known possibility of sending instruments to altitudes above those reached by sounding balloons. . . . From the standpoint of commerce, we must look to the rocket if we hope to attain speeds of transport above a few hundred miles an hour. . . . From the standpoint of war, we must consider the fact that rockets may carry explosives faster than the airplane and farther than the projectile...
...Ministers of Europe, the imminent likelihood of Soviet planes winging over the top of the world to the U. S. (TIME, May 31 et seq.), a development in air transport even more prodigious than Pan American's bridging of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans (TIME, Dec. 2, 1935), revives the old bugaboo of Red Wings over Europe...