Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caution. Snow and darkness hid the path which a Transcontinental Air Transport with two pilots and six passengers was making east of Albuquerque, N. Mex. last week. The pilots, Vernon Lucas and F. N. Erickson, dropped flares, landed comfortably in six inches of snow and by radio kept telling Albuquerque that they were safe. Their caution exemplified the policy of T. A. T., whose transcontinental airmail service has been running surely and safely since its bad wreck two months...
Harvard undergraduates may fly to the Michigan game this week-end, according to arrangements now being made by the Colonial Air Transport. "The Harvard Football Special" as the plane, or planes, will be known, will take off from the East Boston Airport either Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, according to the wishes of those making reservations...
...Chief." In through the giant curved rolling door at the end of the building marches Rear-Admiral William Adger Moffett, chief of the Navy's bureau of aeronautics. With him are President Litchfield, Designer Arnstein, Commander Jerome Clark Hunsaker, who Drobably will head the Pacific Zeppelin Transport Co. (see col. 3). They mount a platform above the arc of the master ring. President Litchfield explains the ceremonies to spectators and microphones. Dr. Arnstein hands Rear-Admiral Moffett the gold rivet and a silver-plated hand riveting machine, which looks like a dentist's forceps. Admiral Moffett places...
...bankers have anticipated by at least two years the commercial transoceanic operation of dirigibles. As expected (TIME, Sept. 16), Manhattan's National City Bank interests organized the International Zeppelin Transport Corp. It will operate German-built dirigibles between Europe, North America, South America. National City's Chairman. Charles Edwin Mitchell was at sea last week, returning from a conference with Dr. Eckener and President Jakob Goldschmidt of the Darmstadter and National Bank. He had Dr. Eckener's declaration that a year will be necessary to enlarge the Zeppelin Works at Friedrichshafen and another year to produce...
...other forecast in incorporation (TIME, Sept. 16) was that of Pacific Zeppelin Transport Co. Ltd., by Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy (Goodyear Tire & Rubber financial adviser), Lehman Bros., W. A. Harriman & Co. and Pynchon & Co. It will operate Goodyear-built zeppelins from the Pacific Coast to Hawaii. If traffic warrants it will go to the Philippines. But not until at least 1933, after the Navy ships are finished, can Goodyear-Zeppelin build anything for this new operating company...