Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Directions have been given to send to Shanghai the 31st Regiment . . . now at Manila, together with 400 Marines [later increased to 600] on the transport Chaumont leaving tomorrow. The cruiser Houston and six destroyers left Manila this morning for Shanghai...
...even Russians know that the Piatiletka lagged in 1931. Transport, steel, iron, coal, the general productivity of Russian labor all failed to fulfill schedules. To make up for lost time Russia will spend this year 21 billion rubles ($10,700,000,000), nearly one-third more than in 1931. Half of this sum will be spent for industrial development. For agriculture 4,400,000,000 rubles (21% more than in 1931) is provided. For transportation there will be 3,300,000,000 rubles (22.4% increase). To fulfill its coal schedule Russia must produce 90 million tons, 31,400,000 more...
...Herbert Richard Gallagher, who will be president. Since 1910 Mr. Gallagher has been selling oil on the Pacific Coast for Shell Union Oil Corp. His own talent was selling, and for that, particular reason Consolidated chose him. Nowadays it is no feat to produce oil, re fine it and transport it. Of Consolidated's three component parts, two have made little effort to retail oil or gasoline. Prairie Oil & Gas owns almost 2,000,000 acres of rich producing lands in the mid-continent fields but has only a small retailing subsidiary. Prairie Pipe has about...
...ordinarily of only partial value because as much as half the noise of an airplane is made by the whirling propeller (TIME, Oct. 27, 1930). But geared en- gines turn big, high-pitched propellers at low speeds. In such engines propeller noise is comparatively slight. Last week Eastern Air Transport, whose Condor biplanes are powered by geared Conqueror engines, adopted a muffler which was said to reduce engine noise by 70% without loss of power. The muffler, developed by the company's Chief Engineer Ralph G. Lockwood, consists of an exhaust manifold more than twice the size of the regular...
Errett Cord's personal experience in aviation (he had a pilot's license) convinced him that here was a new factor for speed not to be ignored. He became convinced that one day cabin and transport planes would be as indispensable to the average man as automobiles. He set out to be a Mercury to the middle classes, to provide motion above the ground as well as on it for lower prices. In 1929 he acquired Stinson Aircraft Corp., again by an exchange of stock. This time, though, it was not Auburn stock he offered but the common of Cord...