Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator Stalin gets things done, occasionally spurring his subordinates to perform the flatly impossible, appeared last week when Commissar for Transport Lazar Kaganovich announced 13,423,000 freight car loadings for the first seven months of 1935, whereas experts had considered it impossible for him to fulfill the goal of 13,356,000 loadings set by Comrade Stalin...
When Comrade Kaganovich, hardest-boiled protege of the hard-boiled Dictator, was appointed Commissar for Transport, the most broken-down part of Russia's economic structure was her railways. For years Comrade Stalin had been having railwaymen shot after every wreck, ignoring their pleas that they desperately needed new equipment...
Lawyer Morrow was acting as agent for Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. of Tulsa, subsidiary of Standard Oil of Indiana. Standard of Indiana wanted Yount-Lee to assure an adequate supply of crude oil for the Texas refineries of another subsidiary, Pan American Petroleum & Transport. So Lawyer Morrow sold the physical assets of Yount-Lee Oil to Stanolind for $42,000,000, keeping real estate, notes and accounts receivable of approximately $4,000,000. He expects to make his profit on the largest cash deal in Texas history by liquidating these assets...
Sirs: Please refer to p. 52 of your July 15 issue under Transport-299. We quote: The ''first Army or Navy craft to have more than three motors." Your memory apparently does not extend back to 1919 when the NC4 crossed the Atlantic. This Navy plane and its sister ships had four motors. M. O. ADAMS...
...other three sons were with His Majesty on the brass-funneled Victorian royal yacht Victoria and Albert. From her forepeak flew the Leopard of the Lord High Admiral of England, the King. Sixty-four special trains chuffed in with a trampling, eager throng which other means of transport swelled to 250,000. In all 54 females fainted. With the sun blistering down, George V received on his yacht slews of gold-laced admirals, sea-peacocks who arrived in glittering barges, plus the more drab captains of liners sent to the review as "floating grandstands," the Berengaria, Alcantara and Arandora Star...