Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible for a handy amateur to build a glider out of spruce or pine, wire, and fabric. Design is quite like that for a monoplane. (One popular German model amazingly resembles a Lockheed-Vega.) Wingspan may be up to 65 feet (span of a staunch commercial Ford trimotored transport). But 25 feet is more practical for beginners. The National Glider Association at Detroit will furnish blue prints. However best advice warns against amateur construction, or patching together of old motored plane parts...
...small amount of clerical work to be done. At the end of the competition, from ten to 15 men will be elected to membership in the club. These may start flying at once upon their election and will be entitled to take a full course of instruction under licensed transport pilots...
...known that the administration might go even further in support of the present Mexican Government because the Government had shown "a willingness to live up to its international agreements"?that is, to protect U.S. citizens and property in Mexico. He said there was precedent for allowing Mexico to transport troops through the U.S. in order to make a concentration against the rebel forces in northwestern Mexico...
...Wilson, secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals: "We Methodists believe in repentance." Said F. Scott McBride: "We always welcome converts." ¶ In Philadelphia detectives arrested two Negro youths for wearing corsets within which were fastened hot water bottles containing whiskey. The charge was illegal transportation. ¶ One of Mr. Lament's former A. A. P. A. associates was Banker Charles H. Sabin of Manhattan. Mrs. Charles H. Sabin,- Republican National Committeewoman from New York, campaigned last fall for Mr. Hoover, saying that she believed his election would be the most practical way of securing...
Aviation Corp., nominally a $200,000,000 holding and development company underwritten by Lehman Bros, and W. A. Harriman & Co., Inc. They will at first offer only $40,000,000 of stock to buy substantial interests in all branches of aviation (plane manufacture, motors, accessories, transport). William Averell Harriman is chairman of the directorate, Robert Lehman chairman of the executive committee...