Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herbert Stanley Morrison, who set an example for the Empire, is a onetime errand boy and telephone operator who grew up to be Mayor of suburban Hackney in 1920. Serving two terms in the House of Commons, he was Laborite Minister of Transport (1929-31). Since the fall of the Labor Cabinet he has concentrated on London city politics. Nowadays, despite his beliefs, he appears as correctly clad as any stockbroker, proudly carrying the Londoner's traditional furled umbrella. It was not always so. In 1929, three months after he became His Majesty's Minister of Transport...
...people would analyze the present airmail situation, they would soon realize why the large commercial aviation companies are the only concerns that can carry the mail successfully, and why the Army has failed so utterly in its attempt to transport the mail," said George F. Doriot, professor of Industrial Management at the Business School yesterday when interviewed by the CRIMSON. "It was perfectly natural to allow only the large concerns to bid for the contracts at the time they were issued, and I cannot understand why so many people are today complaining about this action...
...Army had been properly trained and furnished with the proper equipment, it should have been able to carry the mail far better than it has. After all!" Mr. Doriot exclaimed, "long bombing and observation fights should have been of sufficient training to the flyers to allow them to transport the mail successfully, and even bad weather is no excuse for the many mishaps which have occurred, for a war would certainly demand flying in bad weather...
Granted that flying conditions were poor; granted that army fliers lack experience in blind and instrument piloting, radio beacon landing; granted that the government's aeroplanes were some years behind the civilian transport machines in efficient performances--that may be valid excuse for their poor performance in carrying the mails, but it would be small consolation had the emergency been one which could not be controlled by executive order or opposition legislation. The individual army pilots lack neither courage or ability, but the equipment, training, and morale of that service is far below the standards of practical preparedness...
...under, around, or through the opponents,' Nothing will be accomplished by standing still, and he is obliged to use a policy of trial and error. His action on the airmail question was obviously wrong, but this was an impetuous move. Roosevelt had had reports from inspectors that the air transport companies were practising all sorts of fraud in the way of putting heavy stones in the mail sacks and weighing them three or four times, and his natural hate of anything underhanded led him to make a move which has had drastic results. Eventually, he will lead the country...