Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burlington's regular flyers, they would have had to entrain on the Aristocrat the afternoon before. Half an hour later, after appearing briefly on the stage of the Fair pageant Wings of a Century, history-making Zephyr shuttled over to the Fair's Travel & Transport Building for a summer's exhibition before being put in regular service between Kansas City and Omaha. She was a notable visitor the opening day- but not the first. That honor went to one Martin Svendsen, 19, at 9 a. m. He had been waiting at the gates...
...today the No. 1 tycoon of U. S. shipping. When he became president of I. M. M. in 1921 he was also a great tycoon of shipping but not of U. S. ships. Then I. M. M.'s big lines were White Star, Red Star, Leyland, and Atlantic Transport Ltd., all of which fly the British flag...
respiration, circulation, metabolism, acid-base balance, water balance, heat regulation, cardiac performance, excretion, blood gas transport, and subjective responses in rest and in work of varying intensity. Continuous observation will be made, but especially detailed programmes will be carried out at sea level, 5,000 feet, 11,000 feet, 14,500 feet, 17,500 feet, 19,500 feet, and the same stations coming down. As much as possible will be done at altitudes greater than 20,000 feet...
...airman of the year. Another is the Collier Trophy which annually rewards outstanding development in U. S. aeronautics. The third, and in some respects the most significant, is the Daniel Guggenheim Gold Medal which last week went to Board Chairman William Edward Boeing of potent United Aircraft & Transport Corp. First awarded in 1929 to Orville Wright, the Guggenheim Medal has gone each year to outstanding scientists in advanced aeronautical engineering. No aeronautical engineer is this year's winner, but a hard-headed industrialist who turned to flying as a hobby, began making airplanes as a whim and ended...
...official slit open the first bid and read it aloud. Others followed, to the scratch of an accountant's pen writing down their contents. Most of the old-line companies blossomed out with a minor change in name-part of the Farley program for corporate reorganization. Eastern Air Transport became Eastern Air Lines. Transcontinental & Western Air put three new periods into its abbreviated title. American Airways switched to American Air Lines. Only Western Air Express made a major change by becoming General Air Lines. Because its previous contracts were held under the names of its operating subsidiaries, only United...