Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastern Air Lines Douglas cracked up in New York, killed no one due to the landing skill of Pilot Dick Merrill. On Dec. 23, a Braniff Air Lines Lockheed plumped to earth at Dallas on a test flight, killed six. Total toll for the year on scheduled passenger transport planes was 59-high-est in history...
...Luther Vidal declared that reports that he is about to resign are "without foundation." United Air Lines' Hostess Helen Clark who normally flew in the wrecked plane but had stayed at home last week to nurse a sick father, resigned. Colonel Edgar Staley Gorrell, president of the Air Transport Association of America, declared: "U. S. airlines this year have transported a total of 1,140,000 passengers, of whom 45 lost their lives. . . . Translated into passenger miles, it is possible to fly in a scheduled transport plane at an average speed of 160 m.p.h. for 17 years, one month...
...issue of TIME, Dec. 7, on p. 36, under the main head Transport, subhead "Ambitious Albany," appears an article with which we in Albany are very pleased, with the exception of the statement appearing on p. 38-that Albany civic groups favor the proposed Albany-St. Lawrence project...
General Foods, which has marketed Birdseye Frosted vegetables, fruit and meat in the U. S. since 1931, chose the Davieses' diplomatic migration to introduce them to Europe. Problem there is transportation, since ordinary refrigerator cars do not maintain the zero temperatures at which Birdseye foods must be kept. Arrangements have been made for a special car to transport Mrs. Davies' cream and other Birdseyetems. Meantime last week a Birdseye specialist, sent to Moscow for the purpose, was having the Embassy current stepped up high enough to power the 25 special Birdseye refrigerators...
From a medical point of view the disadvantage of air transport is its speed. Bugs which would die in an eight-day voyage can survive a two-day flight. Last week, in the December number of the Uni-versity of California Alumni Monthly, an article called Doctors, Insects and Air Routes explained a new harbor hygiene against inbound contagion. To halt immigration of any more such pests as the corn-borer, Japanese beetle or red scale, the U. S. Public Health Service insists that all planes from South America or Asia must be sprayed. Pan American Airways conscientiously sprays...