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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hero of U. S. air transport from infancy to maturity was the trimotored Ford. Today fast low-wing Boeings, Douglases and Lockheeds have displaced the "Tin Goose" on most U. S. airlines, and many of the 200-odd Ford tri-motors have gone to South America. Of all the "Tin Geese," none was more familiar to U. S. citizens than the one which for five years has been displayed in the concourse of Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Tin Goose to Boneyard | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...transport picked its way between a farmhouse and a barn near Atlanta, Mo., struck a fence, crashed heavily into a road embankment, turned over. Crushed to death were Pilot Bolton. Co-Pilot Kenneth Greeson, New Mexico's millionaire-Senator Bronson Cutting, a 20-year-old girl-sister of the TWA radio dispatcher who had been directing the plane. Injured were a mother and baby, the wife of a TWA pilot, five Hollywood cinemen and the wife of one, who died next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Ceiling Zero | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...afternoon in Washington, Senators wept openly and a Congressional recess was declared. Same day Manhattan newspapers carried display advertising of a "new, faster Sky Chief," pictures of another TWAirliner which last week flew from Los Angeles to New York non-stop in 11 hr. 5 min., broke the transcontinental transport record by half an hour. First Douglas to crack up in the U. S., Sky Chief's misfortune seemed clearly due to weather, not construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Ceiling Zero | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...transient relief camps in California sailed from San Francisco to spend six months clearing the land, building. Few days later the first contingent of settlers. 67 families, rolled out of St. Paul. With 380 more transients, they were scheduled to sail from San Francisco this week aboard the Government transport St. Mihiet. The second contingent of 133 families was to follow from Seattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Transplanting | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

...years of furious if ill-directed digging, largely by volunteer workmen, there are many things about Moscow's new subway to cause serious engineers to shake their heads, but it easily lives up to its motto: "The most beautiful subway in the world." Built, in the words of Transport Commissar Kaganovich, "to show people what the future will be like under Socialism." all the stations are panelled in rare marble, decorated with huge murals in fresco and mosaic, lit by solid bronze fixtures. The gleaming red-&-buff cars are staffed by attendants in red-&-blue uniforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Parties | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

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