Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall Dictator Josef Stalin recently sent his smallish, smart handyman Andrey Andreevich Andreev to plug and patch the biggest 1931 gap in Russia's Five Year Plan?the failure of Russian railways to haul their planned quotas (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week the new Commissar for Transport showed himself a chip off Stalin's block, plugged and patched ruthlessly right and left...
...transport company which opens up new territory, invests heavily in ground equipment and drums up its own traffic, generally lays claim to certain intangible pioneer rights over any independent concern attempting to invade its route. Late last month Arizona witnessed the start of the first major court test of pioneer rights...
Down came passenger fares by 10% to 20 percent on the three big air transport systems of the nation last week. United Air Lines was first to announce reductions. Transcontinental & Western Air. Inc. and American Airways heard about United's intention in time to make their cuts almost simultaneously. Some typical reductions, identical in most cases for all lines flying between the same points...
...Executive Committee a good dose of 1932, Stalin's spokesman worked the assembly up to an appropriate pitch of optimism. But he also admitted 1931 gaps in the Five-Year Plan, gaps which hundreds of delegates knew to exist in the places from which they came. Neither Russia's transport system, nor her production of steel, iron or coal, nor the general productivity of labor in Soviet factories, admitted Premier Molotov, have fulfilled the 1931 schedules of the Five-Year Plan...
...name the bidder, but most of the operators guessed it was Motorman Errett Lobban Cord whose Century and Century Pacific Lines fly frequent schedules out of Chicago, and between San Francisco and Los Angeles. In view of the limitation of the offer to daylight flying, the transport men did not take it as a serious threat. At the same time they well knew that the Postmaster General would insist on reduction of the threatened $600,000 deficit in the service for the fiscal year...