Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became chairman, finally knew more about prison conditions than any layman in the country. From then on his duties came thick & fast. He was sent all over the State by Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo to boom War Saving Stamps. Soon after, President Wilson put him on the Allied Maritime Transport Council, sent him to Europe. Here again Morrow proved himself fast analyst and smooth conciliator...
...chief executives of every big airmail operator in the U. S. met in an Atlantic City hotel room one day last fortnight. When they emerged, the Pioneer Transport Operators' Association had been formed, with membership limited to present holders of mail contracts. As in the case of the Association of Railway Executives, which is supposed to mould the policies of the rail industry, only the No. 1 man of each member company may represent it in the association.* Purpose of the organization was vaguely stated; something about "cooperation ... on matters pertaining to more efficient operation and service...
Ludington Line might never have come into existence had there not been a shake-up two years ago in Transcontinental Air Transport, which was losing heavily. The shake-up shook out Collins, who was general superintendent, and Vidal of the technical committee. Angry, because they felt that T. A. T. had publicized their discharge as a sort of burnt offering to disgruntled stockholders, Vidal & Collins saw a chance to square accounts. Together they had developed the germ of the plane-per-hour service. If they could start such a line in the East, they might compete with Eastern Air Transport...
Ludington Line is something of an annoyance to the Post Office Department with its offers to carry mail for 25? per mi., less than half of what is paid Eastern Air Transport...
...Miami-Biltmore Hotel in Miami was sold at auction. One Alfred J. Richey, Manhattan real estate dealer, wished to attend the sale. He contracted to pay $650 for airplane transport from Roosevelt Field, L.I. to Miami. The plane landed at Jacksonville and Alfred J. Richey reached Miami by train five hours late. He thereupon stopped payment on a $500 check which he had given Roosevelt Flying Corp...