Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brigadier General A. C. Dalton is 60 years old. Square-jawed and weather-beaten by many years of gallant army service (D. S. M.), his frame illy accords with an alpaca suit. He received what shipping experience he possesses during 1917-18 in the Transport Service...
...Professor Keesom had solidified that rare and undemonstrative gas, helium, by a process not too costly or laborious to be adopted industrially. By some ingenious discovery he had readily reduced the gas temperature to very nearly absolute zero. The significance: solid helium, crystalline and transparent in glass tubes, would transport far more handily than the gaseous form. Helium gas is so tenuous that it would take comparatively few tubes of the solid to fill a dirigible...
Chuckles were likewise rampant in London clubrooms at an alleged revelation of how the Government kept ultra-Tory organizations, the so-called "British Fascists," from violently attacking the strikers. When the "Fascists" reported for strike duty they were told that more trucks were imperatively needed to transport food supplies, and set to repairing several hundred vehicles from which "strikers" were alleged to have fiendishly removed essential parts. Actually the Government experts had carefully disabled the trucks. The Fascists, peacefully occupied in making repairs, were kept out of mischief...
...Curtiss planes used are of a new commercial type called "Carrier Pigeons." The transport company is maintaining ten of them, each costing: $20,000. Specifications: 400-horse Liberty motor, 42-ft. wingspread, 28 ft. long, 12 ft. high, 3,500 Ib. weight, average speed 100 miles per hour. The heaviest load carried on the first day was 276½lb. of mail (about 10,000 letters). The first day's total postage: $8,411.14. The post-office rates: 10? an ounce between Chicago and Dallas; 15? an ounce to points east of Chicago...
...members of the four-way syndicate are: Standard Oil of N. J. (Mr. Teagle's firm), Standard Oil of N. Y., Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Co., Gulf Refining Co., and Atlantic Refining Co. The syndicate at first will spend $5,000,000 prospecting for oil; at present contemplates no production...