Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manchu Emperor (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Relations Ruptured- In jittery fear lest Eastern Asia be plunged into a great war by the fighting begun last week, the more prosperous subjects of His Imperial Majesty Kang Te hastily fled from Manchukuo this week to China until all transport facilities were crushingly overtaxed. In Harbin, the Russian metropolis of Manchukuo. which teems with both White Russians and Red, furious quarreling raged between Japanese-Manchu officials and Soviet Consul General Mikhail Slavutsky. He refused their demand that 108 Manchu troops who recently mutinied against Japanese officers and took refuge in Siberia...
...regulations 100% in some districts," was lax in reporting forced landings, blamed more than 80% of crashes on weather or plane personnel. U. S. airlines, though deeply in the red as a whole, still spend great sums on new safety equipment, are chiefly responsible for making U. S. air transport five times safer now than...
...Cork and Orrery, commander of the British Home Fleet (1933-35), President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and Admiral Commanding the Royal Naval War College (1929-32). To a London audience, over which gradually fell a great hush, the Admiral declared: "The Lusitania might have been used to transport 10,000 American troops on a single voyage to fight Germany. If women and children choose to cruise about in war areas, they must expect what they get. In sinking the Lusitania as an act of war, the Gearman Admiralty was right...
...back & forth over snowy hills to test equipment and find out, among other things, if machine-gun oil will lubricate at sub-zero temperatures. What made last week's war game newsworthy was the presence of the world's first Flying Flagship. A twin-motored Douglas DC2 transport, it is the first of three ordered by the Air Force at $85,000 apiece. Under the direction of Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews, it has been equipped as a complete flying headquarters with offices, radios, kitchen, but without armament. In it General Andrews acts as air admiral, flying above...
...Harvard airman has a transport license; about ten have private licenses; two more are amateurs. Only three men of the Class of '39 have joined the Club. Of these one is a pilot...