Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George F. Schlesinger, chief engineer and managing director of the National Paving Brick Manufacturers Association, the Arthur M. Wellington prize; for evaluating the practical utility of highway transport surveys...
Civilian & commercial airplanes flew approximately 145,000,000 mi. last year, a decrease of about 20,000,000 mi. from 1930. The decrease was accounted for by a decline in private flying and such miscellaneous air activities as sightseeing, instruction, and photography. Scheduled air transport continued to boom, but not so much as in recent years. For the first time since 1925 it failed to double its previous year's record for passenger-mileage. Nevertheless it was up some 20% in a year when railroad and steamship travel slumped heavily. Transport planes carried 457,800 passengers, flew...
...President was elected. His first act last week was to raise the state of siege which has gripped Argentina since September 1930 (when General Uriburu staged his coup d'état). Back toward home headed an Argentine transport crammed with political prisoners. Then suddenly the transport put to sea again. Aboard the ship, the new Government of Argentina announced, are crews...
With the gravitation of transport flying from adventure to business, pilots' pay came down to average about $550 a month. Many continued to feel that unionization was beneath the prestige of a pilot. But when Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. cut salaries last autumn. Pilot David L. Behncke of Boeing Air Transport, most vigorous agitator for unionization, was able to draw a group away from the N. A. P. A. to form the first pilots' union. In Chicago last week the Airline Pilots' Association, affiliated with the A. F. of L., had its first real task...
Most observers predicted that in the face of hard times, with hundreds of experienced transport pilots out of work, any attempted strike must fail. President Behncke claimed a union membership of about 475, out of 700 or 800 employed airline pilots. Transport operators thought that possibly 100 might support a strike program. But the operators were grateful that airplane mechanics were.not unionized, could not start a sympathetic strike...