Word: transport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the year's fatalities in aviation are reckoned up it will be found that two of the deadliest crashes of 1933 obliterated 15 persons who, in all likelihood, had never been in an airplane in their lives. Last spring a transport plane carrying a pilot and two passengers into Oakland, Calif. crashed into a suburban cottage, set it afire, burned ten groundlings to death (TIME, April 3). Last week Lieut. George R. Johnson, an aerial photographer whose discoveries in the high Andes of Peru were world famed, took off from Red Bank, N. J. with an observer...
...minutes before 4:30 p. m. one day last week at Newark Airport, United Air Lines' ten-place transport No. 23, bound for Chicago, taxied up to the passenger depot for loading. The passenger list was unusually small. There was a trim young woman who, flushed with excitement, confided in the pilot that she had missed the previous plane and had to be in Reno next morning "to visit her sister." (It turned out that she was to be married next day.) And there was a middle-aged man named Emil Smith, a retired grocer. Mr. Smith caused...
...last year a Washington. D. C. undertaker named John T. Rhines wanted to board an Eastern Air Transport plane in Atlantic City. According to Undertaker Rhines, he was refused: not because he was carrying a bomb, not because he was intoxicated, but because he was a Negro. Last week Undertaker Rhines sued...
...transport men recalled the case of a Midwestern line which five years ago lost a similar damage suit to a Negro. Immediately the line was deluged by Negro customers whom it finally discouraged by upping fares to a prohibitive price. Nowadays transport lines do not solicit Negro patronage, but they accept all passengers who apply...
...most big transport planes a passenger may tilt his chair far back, but semi-vertical sleep is not easy. Knowing that the U. S. traveler expects more solid comfort, Eastern Air is experimenting with berths just like a Pullman car's. To start, the company installed only two berths in one plane, a lower and upper, complete with reading lamps, clothing nets, hangers. It had yet to prove that passengers, who think nothing of disrobing in a train or at sea, would believe they are safe without clothes in a plane...