Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thick-necked, addicted to pipes and vivid neckties. Major Seymour is the first dyed-in-wool operations man to pre side over American Airways. He served with the Army Air Corps overseas, re turned to become consulting engineer to the Chief of Army Air Service. Shortly after National Air Transport was organized in 1926, and before it began service, "Bing" Seymour joined its ranks. He remained with it until a few months ago when he resigned as vice president in charge of operations (of United Airlines, which" had absorbed NAT). To him went much credit for early airmail pioneering...
...Posts & Transport†-Baron Paul Eltz von Rübenach...
Foresighted air transport operators regard the express business as their ace-in-the-hole. Passenger business is rarely profitable to any long-distance carrier. Airmail subsidies are subject to politics. Airmail loads vary inversely as the postage rates (they are off 30% since the airmail stamp was upped to 8?). But air express has been zooming, will climb this year to 1,000,000 lb., 66% higher than last year...
...transport were really a poker game, Player Philbin would need a substantial stack of blue chips to back his express ace. They have been supplied by "strong financial interests." Three of the backers were learned last week: Chandler Hovey, socialite, yachtsman, senior partner in Kidder, Peabody & Co. (Wall Street investment house); Arthur S. Jackson, of Jackson Bros., Boesel & Co. (Chicago brokers) ; and Frank Phillips, petroleum tycoon whose gas & oil will fill the tanks of Air Express Corp.'s ships. First aide to President Philbin is his vice president in charge of traffic. James G. Woolley, a plump, profane hurricane...
...with Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, 30% stockholder who was trying to unseat it, the industry was painfully aware of one fact: That the missiles hurled by each side would be picked up by opponents of airmail subsidies, carefully saved until the next Congress convenes, then flung at all air transport...