Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Transfer of airmail and transport supervision (from the Post Office and Commerce Departments) to the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...Cheyenne to Albuquerque and the other from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles ( ). On the former route, a new mail contract will be awarded only from Cheyenne to Pueblo. Down the Atlantic Coast, from Newark to Miami and inland from Richmond to Atlanta and Jacksonville runs the Eastern Air Transport route (X∎X∎X∎X∎X∎X∎X∎), only one to have all its old contract routes included in the new setup. American Airways' southern transcontinental route extends from Newark to Los Angeles by way of Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati. Louisville, Nashville...
...Cord's bids were doubtless lowest but-Probable fact: Cord more than offset any operating losses by the resultant boom in New York Shipbuilding's stock. This operation is what prompted La Motte Turck Cohu, whom Cord ousted as president of Aviation Corp., to growl: "The air transport business will be torn away from the pioneer operators . . . and put into the hands of speculators." President Richard W. Robbins of TWA growled: "Postmaster General Farley has extended an open invitation for all the crapshooters of the vintage of 1929. . . ." It is fact that Franklin D. Roosevelt flew via American...
...Drive car in 1930, his name was known to a very small portion of the public. It was about then that he bought a plane, learned to fly it, determined to make planes much cheaper than they then were. With the late Edward A. Stinson he began producing trimotored transport planes at such absurdly low prices that other manufacturers, including Henry Ford, found it prudent to retire from the field. It was to create a market for his planes that he started Century and Century Pacific airlines, made air travel popular by slashing fares to railroad levels. Slim, young-looking...
First break in the situation came from potent ($39,000,000) United Aircraft & Transport Corp., whose President Philip G. Johnson announced decision to reorganize in order to bid for future mail rights.* In line with the Administration's wishes, United's big operating unit (United Air Lines) will be divorced from manufacturing subsidiaries (Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky, et al.). In announcing the change President Johnson gravely protested cancellation of his company's mail contracts last February...