Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California crash, worst in nearly a year, helped to attract attention to a bill introduced into Congress last week by publicity-loving Representative Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn, requiring transport lines to provide parachutes for each & every passenger. Representative Celler's measure, he said, grew out of a bad scare he got while flying over Philadelphia. To back up his proposal, he drew liberally from a provocative article in the February Forum called "Death by Air Transport" by Lloyd S. Graham in which compulsory use of parachutes was demanded. Author Graham, onetime publicity writer for Irving Air Chute Co., made these...
...view of the parachute's record of saving the lives of more than 700 military and commercial flyers since 1919, there is good reason to believe that the lives of transport passengers could likewise be saved...
...Transport operators have conspired to shun the 'chute because of ignorance of its practicability, stinginess and fear that patronage would be frightened away...
...transport industry has press-agented the Press into a sentimental atti tude toward aviation. If its seamy side were known, the public would demand safety legislation (i.e. parachutes) just as it demanded and got safety laws for railroads and steamships...
...editors of Forum approached Transcontinental & Western Air Inc. (on whose line Knute Rockne and seven others died in a crash last April) with a proposal that Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, technical adviser of the company, write a reply for the next issue. The proposal was promptly rejected. But transport operators have not kept their objections to the passenger 'chute idea to themselves. Chief objections...