Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...superfrontier defenses by 1940. But in this present year he has saved over four billion francs by discharging 85,000 superfluous Government employes, slashing Government salaries and veterans' pensions, and paring down the State Railways' chronic deficit by drastic reorganization and coordination of rail and road transport. Recognizing that prices must be forced down if the franc is to remain on gold, Gastounet has attacked cautiously the fantastic artificial price of wheat, fixed in France by a previous cabinet at $2.07 per bu. The new fixed price is $1.95 and Premier Doumergue has only begun his price lowering...
World's first aerial sleeper service was launched by Eastern Air Transport last autumn (TIME, Oct. 16) when an 18-passenger Curtiss Condor with two berths (upper & lower) was assigned to the night run between Newark and Atlanta. When airmail contracts were cancelled in February, Eastern Air discontinued the night run to Atlanta and, with it, air sleeper service. When the company began flying mail again three months later, the sleeper service was not resumed...
Reading the report of ''A General on Merry-Go-Round," (TiME, May 28) reminds me of a voyage I made some years ago on a U. S. Army transport. The ship had just returned from the Philippines bearing as passengers General Douglas MacArthur, Mrs. MacArthur (the present Mrs. Lionell Atwell) and her chil dren. . . . They had been aboard some four or five weeks, and how they stood the discomforts of that ship, the miserable accommodations, wretched food, and two bare, cramped staterooms assigned to them I do not know. Accustomed as I was to knocking about the world...
...that transport ten days, and every day of the ten I heard praise, admiration and respect expressed by the captain, the mate and the whole ship's crew for General MacArthur and his family. In their opinion the General was "a Prince," "a regular fellow," "the finest man who ever drew the breath of life," and Mrs. MacArthur was "a lovely woman." ''a good sport." "the real thing," and the children were "well-behaved youngsters." General MacArthur was not obliged to travel on that abominable boat. He could have taken leave and traveled home in comfort...
...scheduled U. S. air transport lines the extra hazard per hour of passenger flight is approximately 66 times that of normal ground occupations. Scheduled air transport in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands approaches that of the U. S. in safety. In Great Britain it is "possibly twice as hazardous"; in France and Mexico, at least five times as hazardous...