Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Aviation will speed completion of its contract to build 15 twin-motored observation and bomber planes for the Army, five flying boats for the Coast Guard. Then it will abandon the Fokker name, probably will concentrate on the development of an entirely new type of transport plane for civil...
...important contracts to eleven Swedish firms, among them Swedish General Electric, Atlas Diesel (engines), Nydquist & Holm (locomotives) and the Gota Shipyards. Persia's blanket purchase totaled $2,680,000, represents chiefly structural steel, rails and other equipment for modernizing Persia's transport system...
...retainer of the Lord of Kagoshima. He commenced sailor's career at 16 and at 21 first came under fire, in fighting with the late Enomoto's Kwaiten; studied in England, '71-73; in the Japan-China War commanded the cruiser Naniwa and sank the Chinese transport Kowsing, a British steamer flying the British flag (see p. 39); Rear-Admiral after the War; Vice-Admiral in '90; Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet in the '04-05 War and hero of the Japan Sea battle fought on 27th May, '05; Full Admiral...
...have undersold national oil companies in Detroit. Last week Col. Walter Corydon Cole of Union League Club of Michigan accused Sunny Service of buying gasoline from U. S. S. R. at 3½? a gallon, "laid down" in Detroit. That is only a fraction more than mere transport charges of gasoline from Texas to Detroit...
...from Newfoundland to Wales in a monoplane piloted by the late Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon, Miss Earhart had to submit to such labels as "Lady Lindy," "First Lady of the Air," etc. Her name was bought by Cosmopolitan, which engaged her as aviation editor, then by Transcontinental Air Transport, which appointed her assistant to the general traffic manager. Last autumn she was given charge of publicity for Ludington Line (plane-per-hour) operating between New York and Washington, a job lately delegated elsewhere. Few months ago Miss Earhart married her friend and sponsor. Publisher George Palmer Putnam (TIME...