Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale friend attended an important banking conference, the latter scribbled the just-arrived score of a football game on a card and slipped it to the former-Yale 7; Princeton 0. Back from van Zeeland came the re-joinder-"Belgian Cabinet: Princeton 2; Yale 0." Cabinet Minister of Transport Vicomte Charles de Bus de Warnaffe was once a Princeton graduate student too. Mr. van Zeeland's brother and his nephew both studied at Princeton. He has promised that as soon as his elder son graduates from Louvain he shall study at Princeton...
TIME, May 10, on p. 52 under Transport states that ". . . nowhere can train travelers telephone beyond the train when it is moving." A number of years ago the Deutsche Reichsbahn started installing regular telephone service from moving trains to outside points in the country...
...General Mola's land attack on Bilbao was temporarily halted after a bloody hand-to-hand with rifle butts and knives. Comparatively quiet too were all the other fronts. But overhead hell was popping. The week started with the shooting down, by Rightists near Bilbao, of a French transport plane carrying passengers from Biarritz to the besieged city. France had little cause for complaint. The transport, owned by the Air Pyrenees Line, had been running the blockade for weeks trusting to its top speed of 230 m.p.h. and the pilot's ability to dive into clouds...
...explanation seemed likely to be accepted as final. He concluded that the disaster was caused: by lightning or static electricity from a small, following thunderstorm, igniting free gas high inside the rear of the envelope. Speaking in German translated by Vice President Frederick W. Meister of American Zeppelin Transport Co., and discarding sabotage in short order, Dr. Eckener reached his conclusion by the following reasoning: "Theoretically I believe there are only three possibilities of such ignition. First, the least probable is ball lightning. I have never seen it and have no knowledge of it or the conditions creating...
...past year has cast several shadows on the fame of Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, whom no less an authority than War Ace Eddie Rickenbacker calls the "best transport pilot in the U. S." Last summer Dick Merrill flew Crooner Harry Richman to England, was forced down in Wales (TIME, Sept. 14). On the return trip he cracked up in Newfoundland, got embroiled in a tawdry, name-calling squabble with Richman, to whom he no longer speaks (TIME, Sept. 28). Back on his regular run for Eastern Air Lines, Dick Merrill next made news by wrapping his ship around a mountain...