Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bound from Brussels to London with eight passengers, mostly Britons going home for the holidays, the Imperial Airways transport Apollo drilled through a milky fog over western Belgium. As she neared the coast, between Bruges and Ostend. Apollo groped lower and lower. CRASH! She hit the mast of a wireless station, snapped it off, flopped to earth. FLASH! Flames shot high. Said one of the crew of the wireless station, afterward: "There was not a chance for the passengers or the two pilots. There was not a sound or a cry from the cabin...
...slickery may be the only way, but it is not the way of a Mussolini. Once before, when Il Duce stabilized the lira on gold, he cut Italian wages and prices (TIME, May 30, 1927). In 1930 he forced every salary in Italy, all rent, light, heat, food and transport charges down between 10% and 12%. Details of the new cuts were being worked out last week by the Ministry of Corporations- the Minister of Corporations being Benito Mussolini. With the candor of the strong, Il Duce recently admitted that Italy's exports have fallen off badly, thus necessitating...
...inclusive as human mind can make it.* All the words in the Oxford Dictionary are dated, and as the layman thumbs through this Supplement he will see the kind of terms the last generation has added to the language in biochemistry, wireless telegraphy and telephony, mechanical and air transport, psychoanalysis, the cinema. In London last month urbane George Stuart Gordon, president of Oxford's Magdalen College, half-humorously commented: "It [the Supplement'] gives the impression of a talented, nervous, highly-strung generation, equally harassed by its pleasures and its pains. ... I find too many words expressing contempt...
...Direct help to the general transport industry by development of more powerful landplanes, seaplanes, engines...
When Transcontinental Air Transport ("Lindbergh Line") was formed in 1928 Gene Vidal got his first real job. He made a point of working in every department, learned the business from bottom to the level of assistant general manager. Also he made two fast friends in the company: Publicist Amelia Earhart and General Superintendent Paul ("Dog") Collins. In 1929 a merger shook him and Paul Collins out. But before that happened they had hatched the best idea of their careers-a short airway over a heavily traveled route with frequent schedules and low fares. They sold the idea to Philadelphia Socialites...