Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Play. Historically, the Continental Army had its Golgotha in the winter of 1780 at Morristown, N. J. But the hardships endured at Valley Forge, two winters before, are popularly supposed to have enveloped the new nation's darkest hour. Equipment and supplies there were in plenty. But transport had completely broken down. Technically, General William Howe and his Red Coats were bottled up in Philadelphia, but Washington's little army of freedom was depleted by more than seasonal desertions. There were no victories. Trenton, Princeton and Saratoga were many months behind. Chased from one meeting place to another, a harried...
...London Times, reporting the news of Trafalgar: "There was not a man who did not think that the life of the Hero of the Nile was too great a price for the capture and destruction of twenty sail of French and Spanish men of war. No ebullitions of popular transport, no demonstrations of public joy, marked this great and important event...
Scientific apparatus will be taken which will permit a detailed study of the respiration, circulation, metabolism, acid-base balance, water balance, heat regulation, cardiac performance, exertion, blood gas transport, and subjective responses in rest and in work of varying intensity. Continuous observations will be made, but especially detailed programmes will be carried out at sea level, 5,000 feet, 11.000 feet, 14,500 feet, 17,600 feet, 19600 feet and the same stations coming down. As much as possible will be done at attitude greater 20,000 feet...
...Moscow last week, as Dictator Stalin considered President Roosevelt's reputed offer, were aggressive President Vincent Bendix of Bendix Corp. (airplane equipment, automobile starters, brakes); General Motors Vice President T. W. Tinkham; White Motor Truck Vice President Colonel Everett Gardner; and representatives of United Aircraft & Transport Corp., ace builders of battle planes. Though Washington spoke of Red orders for U.S. heavy industry, the supersalesmen actually in Moscow last week all seemed to offer equipment to motorize the Red Army against Japan...
Last week, after a bare decade of service, the Minnewaska and Minnetonka, 22,000-ton sister ships of once-famed Atlantic Transport Line, were sold for junk. As ships go, these namesakes of a pair of pre-War liners were not old. The Mauretania, launched in 1907, and the Olympic, launched in 1911, are still in transatlantic trade. But the Minnetonka and Minnewaska, built for comfort in an age of speed, took eight days from New York to London.* Comparatively exclusive, they carried only 400 one-class passengers in cabins amidships. Biggest cargo ships afloat, they rode rough seas smoothly...