Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Public Health Service was busy shipping anti-typhoid and smallpox vaccine, diphtheria antitoxin, influenza and pneumonia serum; was mobilizing a corps of sanitary engineers to face new problems as the flood recedes. Revenue agents were ordered to give up "still" chasing and use their cars to transport refugees. Even the Narcotics Bureau was busy shipping supplies of codeine and other needed drugs to the flood area. WPA had thousands of men at work on the levees, and this week Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins starts on a tour to plan rehabilitation behind the flood. CCC had more thousands working at flood...
...hospital anecdotes which upright members of the profession refrain even "from whispering. Its casting is as daring as its contention. Producer B. P. Schulberg has staffed it almost entirely with unknown players. John Trent, a self-assured young man of likely starring calibre, was until recently piloting a TWA transport. Ruth Coleman is an erstwhile commercial artist model. Helen Burgess is a Paramount stock player also new to the screen. Key situation of A Doctor's Diary is the villainy of Dr. Ludlow (Sidney Blackmer) who postpones an operation on a boy violinist to attend to a rich client...
...aware of his coming until the crescendoing whine of his racing engine jerked heads aloft. Like an angry dragonfly, the little ship buzzed across the field, spiraled up in a chandelle. In the control tower an official timer clicked his watch. After circling a while to let a transport take off, at 1103 p. m. tired Racer Hughes alighted, ran to a telegraph office and sent a wire to Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, awaiting him in Chicago: "Safe and down in Newark." Next day he popped up in Chicago with Miss Hepburn. Crowds collected at the Marriage License Bureau...
Died. Admiral Albert Cleaves. 79, U. S. N. retired, able Wartime Commander of the Cruiser & Transport Force whose convoys transported 2,511,047 soldiers across the Atlantic without a single loss; of pneumonia; in Philadelphia. He commanded the Mayflower, later the Presidential yacht on its 1903 geodetic survey cruise which charted the Atlantic's deepest hole (27,984 ft.) off Puerto Rico, supervised construction of the first U. S. torpedo factory at Newport, initiated ship refuelling...
...50th annual report to Congress last week, the Interstate Commerce Commission suggested a new law for comprehensive regulation of air transport, asked an extra $1,300,000 for its motor carrier bureau, sought power to regulate minimum water carrier rates within its jurisdiction. At the same time, the I. C. C. took it upon itself to criticize Congress sharply for the most controversial section of the Revenue...