Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stone & Co.), Charles E. Mitchell and Gordon S. Rentschler (National City Bank, Manhattan). Jansen Noyes (Hemphill. Noyes & Co.). James C. Willson (Louisville), Thomas N. Dysart (Knight, Dysart & Gamble, St. Louis), Clement Melville Keys (Manhattan). He had watched recent mergers in the industry: Fokker and Western Air Express. Transcontinental Air Transport. Curtiss Corporations and Sikorsky. Keystone and Loening, Pratt and Whitney. Boeing and Niles, Bement and Pond...
...most instructive and entertaining films in the group is a "Brief History of Transportation", which deals with steam, motor, and air, transport. The film ends with striking scenes of the loading and taking off of the big air-liners that fly between London and Paris...
...power to light the city and work the radio. For several days the whole of Kabul-even the legation quarter-was under rebel fire. Eventually the Shinwaris were driven back some 40 miles by loyal troops. Meanwhile Her Majesty the Queen Mother Ulya Hazrat flew out of Kabul by transport plane to Southern Afghanistan where she is especially popular, and besought the citizens of Kandahar to remain loyal...
...keep the plane going? The Army wants to know. So do motor and plane makers, passenger and freight carriers. One condition of such tests is that the plane be fueled in the air. An initial experiment took place at Boiling Field, Washington, last week. While a trimotored Fokker army transport flew at 80 m. p. h., a light refueling plane hovered above her and pumped down gasoline and oil through hoses, dropped food with a rope. The preliminary test worked. So the Fokker and a refueling plane set out for Los Angeles where the break-down tests...
...mean a job, a salary. To the pedestrian, it may mean dark specks droning toward the horizon. To the entrepreneur, it means stocks, incorporations, earnings, mergers, an infant industry for skilled hands to shape. One such shaping took form last week with the incorporation of United Aircraft and Transport, Inc. A holding company, it will own all stock of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. (Wasp, Hornet motors), Chance Vought Corp. (Corsair planes) Boeing Airplane and Transport Co. (manufacturers and transporters). Capitalization: 1,000,000 shares 6% preferred, par $50; 2,500,000 common. President: William E. Boeing, president of Boeing. Board...