Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Female Pilots. Amelia Earhart last week received a license to pilot transports. Of the 40 U. S. female pilots only she, Ruth R. Nichols of Rye, N. Y., Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie of Memphis, Tenn., and Lady Mary Heath of Manhattan have transport qualifications. Only Miss Omlie seems serious in this business. She is planning a flight this year. Miss Earhart makes a gratifying income by writing on flying and appearing at aviation shows. Lady Heath also appears professionally at the shows. Recently she started a concern to import planes. Miss Nichols, rich, is now flying about...
Three weeks ago the worst crash in U. S. air experience occurred at Newark, N. J. A Ford transport operated by Colonial Airways as a sightseeing bus smashed into a freight car. Thirteen passengers were killed instantly. A 14th died quickly. Only the pilot, Lou Foote, remains, bashed up, in a Newark hospital (TIME, March...
...Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, K. B. E., head of Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. and Shell Transport & Trading Co., Ltd., sat at a large mahogany table and ate an Edam cheese sandwich. Around the same table some 20 potent oilmen sat, discussed petroleum and how not to produce too much of it. To Sir Henri, munching his pungent delicacy, might have come memories of the days in which he and John Davison Rockefeller would have constituted an extremely effective quorum on world oil-questions. What battles he had had with the old Standard Oil! How well he remembered the time when...
...Shell Transport & Trading': Co., Ltd., is so called because its Founder Sir Marcus Samuels once conducted a seashell business...
...Famed as conservative aviation financier (United Aircraft & Transport...