Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last month, the French army transport Loiret was crossing the Bay of Biscay. It was vile weather, but poof ! thought the officers, what of that? They were 160 kilometres off shore and their hydrographic charts showed 4,000 to 5,000 metres of water under keel...
Standard Oil evidently prefers to train its executives rather than acquire them through mergers. Last spring, Standard of Indiana acquired the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Co. from Edward L. Doheny (TIME, Apr. 13). Potent in Pan-American was Herbert G. Wylie, long an able Doheny lieutenant. Shortly after the merger, Mr. Wylie found his occupation gone. Pan-American was now a subsidiary, and no longer an independent. Decisions were made by the Standard of Indiana heads, and the Presidency of "Pan Pete" became a sinecure job, without responsibilities or possibilities for individual initiative. This development little suited...
Gloom. Gloom. Gloom. Ahead, rapidly drawing closer, was the spectre of an unparalleled industrial crisis. On Aug. 1 the coal miners would strike, unless a last-minute agreement were made. With the striking miners would be the transport workers and railwaymen, who decided not to handle any coal once the strike began. Numerous other workers would surely walk out in sympathy while, owing to a shortage of coal, many industries would be forced to shut down and discharge their employes. The Times struck the keynote of pessimism...
...Miners' Federation instructed the miners to cease work on July 31. Preparations to this effect were made and compromise arrangements were made to safeguard the mines from flooding. In the background the objects of a proposed Labor alliance, embracing 3,000,000 miners, railwaymen and workers in the shipbuilding, transport and engineering trades, were stated...
...support a union of miners, railwaymen, engineers, shipbuilders and transport workers...