Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Accounting, the actual phases of insurance will be discussed. Publishing and Advertising will also be treated in separate articles. Tranportation with a separate discussion of commercial air transport and a general article on the public service will close this present series...
United Aircraft made $434,635 in 1935. No comparison with 1934 is possible since United Aircraft is a chunk of old United Aircraft & Transport Corp. The chunk was broken off in the summer of 1934 after the U. S. Government objected to combination of air transport companies with makers of planes and engines. United Aircraft makes Pratt & Whitney engines, Hamilton propellers, Corsair military planes, Sikorsky amphibians. Good customer is Pan American Airways, for whom United Aircraft built the Sikorsky China Clipper flying the new transpacific route (TIME, Dec. 2). Earning 21? a share United Aircraft sold last week...
That was the first recorded hold-up of a California expressman. It started an illustrious series, which as much as any other factor contributed to the astounding do-or-die spirit which characterized the growth of Far Western transport. Last week this spirit found fitting record in Treasure Express, Epic Days of the Wells Fargo, a lusty book by a San Francisco advertising man named Neill C. Wilson...
Generally speaking, the hordes of men pouring into the wild country were interested in two things: gold and news from home. The transport of both at fabulous rates became the expressman's job.† That they go through, come hell or highwayman, became almost his religion. At first carried by foot, horse, skis, dogsled, rowboat or river steamer, the treasure and mail eventually rode almost exclusively in the famed Concord stages, the first of which reached San Francisco June...
President Edgar Staley Gorrell of the Air Transport Association: The Government should join the operators in the installation of more weather bureaus, more beacons, continuance of research, extension of personnel. Estimated cost...