Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fortnight ago the Bureau of Air Commerce released the figures, for the first six months of 1936, behind the current U. S. production and transport boom. Compared to the same period in 1935, they stacked up as follows...
...from Newark one rainy, windy evening last week climbed the world's most comfortable land transport plane. Aboard were 14 passengers, mostly bankers, bound for California and the American Bankers' Association meeting. As the plane shot west at 200 m.p.h. on a strong tail wind, they lolled on divans arranged in eight Pullman sections or walked up & down the corridor between the lavatories at the rear and the private compartment held by two of their number just aft of the cockpit. Presently the stewardess set up small tables in each section, served a hot seven-course dinner with...
Quite the reverse was the action of the safest U. S. passenger transport means. In New York newspapers appeared screaming advertisements reading...
...Pilots Thaden & Noyes the $7,000 prize money was far less gratifying than the pleasure of beating the men. Among the first ten U. S. women to earn transport licenses, they have for years been front-line fighters in aviation's ''battle of the sexes." A fuzzy-haired blonde of 30, Mrs. Thaden has been flying since 1927, has held the women's speed, altitude and endurance records, is the mother of a 6-year-old son. She and Flyer Noyes both work regularly as air-marking pilots for the Department of Commerce (TIME...
...hold in Britain last week brought into London's Old Street Police Court doughty John Penfold, an auctioneer charged with warming up a London slum gathering with the words: "I'd turn all the Jews out of Britain! And I'd start with Hore-Belisha [Transport Minister], Sassoon [Undersecretary for Air] and Epstein [sculptor...