Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disease in Ovamboland, South-West Africa after vainly at tempting to reach a hospital by caravan through the jungle. At once Father Schulte volunteered to take his comrade's place. Privately he decided Father Fuhrmann's life could have been saved had an airplane been available to transport him over, instead of through the jungle. Father Schulte resolved to do something about...
...Down upon Colorado last week swept the worst September blizzard in years, smothering Denver with 17 inches of snow, disrupting traffic throughout the State. Up from El Paso, Tex. about the same time climbed a single-motored Lockheed Vega belonging to Varney Air Transport, Inc., passenger-mail line between El Paso and Pueblo, Colo. Meeting bad weather, Pilot C. H. Chidlaw landed at Trinidad, Colo, for the night. Next morning he and his two passengers headed north again. Twenty minutes later, three ranchers near lonely Rattlesnake Buttes saw the plane circling in distress through the heavy blizzard. Apparently intending...
...Charles Walton ("Chuck") Deeds, son of Chairman Edward Andrew Deeds of National Cash Register, invested $40 in Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. After United Aircraft & Transport took over the company in 1929 Mr. Deeds went to town on that investment to the tune of $1,600,000 (TIME, Jan. 29, 1934). Last week young Mr. Deeds resigned as President of United Aircraft Export Corp. to give all his time to United's Pratt & Whitney Division. Elected to succeed him was a hefty six-footer named Thomas Foster Hamilton...
...Hamilton sold his propeller business and a second company, manufacturing all-metal planes, to old United Aircraft & Transport Co. Two years later, Early Bird Hamilton was driving pleasantly around Paris in a Rolls-Royce as United's European representative. In the export business ever since, Mr. Hamilton spends his U. S. vacations in California, gets away from aviation fey coaching his 16-year-old son in motorboat racing...
World's first aerial sleeper service was started in the autumn of 1933 by Eastern Air Transport with an 18-passenger two-berth Curtiss Condor on the Newark-Atlanta run (TIME, Oct. 15, 1933). Only other U. S. airline to try the service since has been American, which started it with Condors between Los Angeles and Dallas in April 1934, found it popular (TIME, July 16, 1934). This service, no longer necessary, was discontinued last week. Other long-run airlines will probably put on service like American's new one as soon as their Douglas...