Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early 1930, last week there was by no means the same interest in pipelines. The public seemed inclined to await results before it increases its stakes in the industry. And no more was heard about such wondrous projects as a pipeline to carry grain, another to transport pulverized coal, a third to gush milk into big cities...
...instead, pointed one of scorn and reproach at Texas and its unregulated oil production. The new East Texas field was bringing in close to 600.000 bbl. per day. Operators there were selling their product at 10? and 15? per bbl., so low that Oklahoma refiners could buy and transport it to their plants at less than the local price (50?) which Governor Murray's order was designed to double. Declared Assistant Secretary of the Interior Joseph M. Dixon...
...broken propeller caused a trimotored Ford transport of American Airways, Inc. to crash last week just after taking off from Cincinnati's Lunken Airport, killing both pilots, all four passengers...
...President Litchfield was frank in saying that, to him, the new Navy ship was but a means to an end: the building of commercial air liners, as big as the Akron and bigger, to ply regular routes across Atlantic and Pacific. It was to this end that International Zeppelin Transport Corp. and Pacific Zeppelin Transport Corp. were founded (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929); to this end Commander Hunsaker and his aides have been working for months in a Manhattan office building, making imaginary daily sailings of Zeppelins on weather charts covering 40 years of Atlantic weather. Nothing can be done before...
...summers ago two octogenarian Scots made a deal for the barren island of St. Kilda, among The Hebrides. Seller was Sir Reginald Macleod, 84, 24th chief of the clan, director of Shell Transport & Trading Co. Buyer was Archibald Kennedy, Marquess of Ailsa. Last summer the Marquess removed St. Kilda's 35 tenants, their cattle and a few sheep to Ayrshire where he owns 76,000 acres. Left behind were wild sheep, seamews and puffins. Declared the Marquess' heir, Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassillis: "My father and I will never again permit the island to be settled' (TIME...