Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liners (Leviathan, President Harding, President Roosevelt), plus a further reduction on de luxe accommodations, plus elimination of the increased rates for summer travel. Competing lines immediately met the issue. North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line), Canadian Pacific, White Star. Red Star, Atlantic Transport and Cunard (which has been agitating for reductions since last year's report showed a ?533,000 net loss) cut prices in all classes an average of 20%. The newly consolidated...
Among other big air transport operators the name of smart Errett Lobban Cord has been anything but hallowed. He established Century and Century Pacific Lines parallel to "pioneer" services. Equipping his lines with his own cheaply operated Stinson tri-motors, he forced fares down. In his efforts to get airmail contracts he persuaded many a Congressman that the Government pays too much money to have its mail flown. In no quarter was he less popular than with American Airways (operating subsidiary of Aviation Corp.) which went before the Arizona Corporation Commission to thwart his competition in the Southwest (TIME, March...
...American Airways, which withdrew long ago from that highly competitive section. But the western coastwise service will be retained, to join American's southern transcontinental line at Los Angeles. Total new mileage acquired: 553. By accepting an Avco directorship, Motormaker Cord agrees not to engage in other air transport operations for two years. But he sees his position as a manufacturer materially strengthened. Although Avco denied that it was bound in any way to buy more transports from Cord's Stinson factory, Mr. Cord was confident that airmail contractors as a class would be willing to buy from...
With Cord off the scene, Ludington Lines remains the biggest of the independents. Conversations concerning the absorption of Ludington by "pioneer" Eastern Air Transport last week had led nowhere...