Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor were the passengers, all alive, but two with broken legs, others with sprained ankles, bruises. These injuries, which in train, ship, automobile or airplane wrecks would not be considered unusual, last week caused headlines because they occurred on the world's greatest, safest, most reliable means of transport...
...York City alone there are 41,470 elevators-more than the total on any continent except North America. Every day they travel 100,000 miles, lift and lower 15,000,000 passengers-twice the number carried by all other New York transport systems combined. Very rarely there is a brief delay through mechanical error. Much more rarely is there an accident. In 1934, last year for which figures are available, there were 96 elevator accidents in Manhattan. The ratio: one death for every 196,000,000 passengers: one injury for every...
...Arctic Circle to Bodo, finally another 425 miles past Narvik and Tromso to the famed town of Hammerfest, northernmost port in the world, where it sliced into the harbor at 5:15. Thus, in the first trip of a daily service that will last until autumn, did Norwegian Aero Transport Co. inaugurate the world's most northerly airline. Cost of ticket...
Heretofore Hammerfest has been dependent entirely upon boats for transportation. Norwegian Aero Transport expects the new passenger & mail air-service to cause a step-up in tourist business. Only three years old, the company has lines around the southern coast to Oslo, last year pushed as far north as Tromso. Technical adviser is famed Pilot Bernt Balchen, who lately returned from a survey of U. S. airlines...
...years ago when the British Government took over the defaulted bonds of Newfoundland, there was a similar leak which made fortunes on Newfoundland bonds for a favored few. Among the biggest plungers then was the brokerage house of Belisha & Co., whose senior partner is the uncle of Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha. A potent partner in Belisha & Co. is Leslie Thomas, son of dumpy James Henry Thomas, Britain's Secretary of State for the Colonies. One of the first facts discovered about last month's Budget-leak scandal was that Belisha & Co. had taken...