Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fleet of six lines (Red Star, Atlantic Transport, Leyland, Baltimore Mail, U. S. Lines, American Merchant Lines) plying the main Atlantic route with weekly and bi-weekly sailings...
Parachutes to lower disabled airplanes have long been under experiment and have been demonstrated with small craft (TIME, Sept. 15, 1930). But Army Air Corps engineers declare that a 'chute cannot be built big enough to support a heavily loaded transport. Instead, it became known last week, they are developing a combination of 'chute and detachable cabin. The 'chute jerks the cabin, intact with passengers, free of the fuselage of the disabled plane and lets it drop slowly. The pilot jumps from the cockpit (forward of the cabin) with his own 'chute while the remainder...
...Labor Party urges definite planning of industry and trade so as to produce the highest standard of life for the nation. As a first step it proposes to reorganize the most important basic industries?power, transport, iron and steel? as public services owned and controlled in the national interest...
Army and Navy planes have been experimenting with the "iron pilot" for several years, but this was the first commercial installation. A sharp-eyed reporter for the Baltimore Sun found the newly equipped Condor at the Berliner-Joyce aircraft plant, shrewdly wrote that Eastern Air Transport proposed to use it in regular service. The transport company was deeply embarrassed because it had not yet applied to the Department of Commerce for permission to use the robot. To check further gossip and placate the Department, it conducted last week's public flight, stated with great emphasis that it was "preliminary...
...Philip Johnson of United Air Lines; Frederic Gallup Coburn of American Airways; Clement Melville Keys of Transcontinental & Western; Harris Hanshue of Western Air Express; Capt. Thomas B. Doe of Eastern Air Transport; Edwin G. Thompson of Transamerica Airlines Corp.; Col. L. H. Brittin of Northwest Airways; Alfred Frank of National Parks Airways...