Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time Pilot J. Nelson Pell was over Boston, on a charter flight from Montreal, it was past midnight. The weather had closed down. For more than an hour, Pilot Pell, a veteran of 7,000 hours of transport flying, flew about in the woolly dark with his three passengers-Thomas Mandell, treasurer of Boston's Carrier-Mandell Inc. (airconditioning) and Mandell's two daughters. At 2:21 a.m., he started to descend. Below him as his little Stinson got near the ground, was a row of lights...
...Some charter airlines carry Puerto Ricans back to San Juan for as little as $37.50 a head. The fare on scheduled airlines: $130. A fortnight ago, a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing found that the converted C-47 transport which carried 21 to death in a Florida crash (TIME, July 21) had been overloaded by about one ton of Puerto Ricans and their baggage. Aboard when the plane crashed were 36 people...
...Balkan shipping on the Danube, all Rumanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian air transport...
...hundred eighty Hungarian enterprises in oil, aluminum, banking, insurance, manufacturing, mining and transport...
Muddling Through. To cope with the problem, BOAC last month sent in a new team. In as chairman, replacing Lord Knollys (rhymes with coals), went 68-year-old Sir Harold Hartley, famed chemist and transportation expert who had managed Britain's aviation gasoline program in World War II. As his managing director, Sir Harold got young (34), handsome Whitney Straight,* ex-R.A.F. pilot and commodore in Britain's Transport Command. Born in the U.S., Straight has lived in England since he was 13. He became a British subject and in his 20s he founded the Straight Corp...