Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first burst over the horizon of national attention when he produced Hell's Angels (TIME, June 9, 1930). Other cinema successes followed, but by 1932 Director Hughes had tired of Hollywood, turned back to aviation as a prime interest. Hiding under a pseudonym, he got a job as transport pilot for American Airways, managed to make one cross-country flight before officials discovered his identity. Next Pilot Hughes took to developing special racers which he flew with moderate success in U. S. air-meets. Latest of these was the husky red-winged plane which last week plopped him down...
Supreme over all London's buses, coaches, trams, suburban & underground railways is the London Passenger Transport Board of seven. Created in 1933, it is a Government bureau in charge of coordinating all London transport lines within 30 miles of Charing Cross, has power over salaries, equipment, elimination of unneeded competition, establishment of new routes, etc., but leaves the actual management in private hands. Since the companies under its control gain cheap credit, stability, and profits proportionate to their value, the Board has been universally welcomed...
From Point Barrow Chief Pilot Joe Crosson of Pan American's Pacific Alaska Airways took off in a transport plane with the bodies wrapped in blankets, strapped to cots. The embalming, begun at Point Barrow by Dr. Greist, was completed at Fairbanks. Then Pilot Crosson flew on to Seattle where a change was made to a large Douglas for the trip to Los Angeles. Meanwhile Will Rogers Jr. flew from California to New York to escort his mother, brother and sister back across the continent for the Rogers funeral at Los Angeles...
...Stalin's favor, had to load more Russian freight cars than could be loaded-unless. This "unless" was Comrade Kaganovich's inspiration, his stroke of Bolshevik genius. Seeing that freight car loadings could not be increased unless passenger service, already inadequate, was ruthlessly curtailed, the Commissar for Transport has been busy reducing the number of Russian passenger trains, cutting out sleeping cars except those used by foreign tourists, slashing the number of tickets stationmasters are permitted to sell for each train, and discouraging Russians by every means from travel...
Since every Soviet citizen tries to get away from home and down to the Russian Riviera during vacation, all lodgings and food in that favorite area have been sharply upped in price this summer by the State to help Transport's Commissar discourage human transport and spur freight. Should Kaganovich ever cease to be Stalin's pet, Russians agreed last week, he can fairly be made the star defendant in a Bolshevik "Propaganda Trial" to discover what "capitalist hireling" sabotaged the entire passenger transport service of the Soviet Union...