Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the Canal Zone came the cruiser Rochester. The transport Chaumont, due at Corinto in four days, raced at full speed with blankets, tents, medical supplies. The aircraft carrier Lexington raced out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, at 28 knots, outdistanced her destroyer convoy. Next day, 150 miles off the coast of Central America, she swung into the wind and a covey of fire planes roared off her flying deck. In a little more than four hours they landed in Managua with physicians, surgeons, loads of urgently needed anaesthetics. (By the previous midnight, four Navy surgeons had performed more than...
Eleven Years, Most important boy in Connecticut's Rumsey Hall school last week was small Paul Vecker, 11, son of General Manager W. Paul Vecker of Compania Cubana de Electricidad. Unescorted, tugging at a heavy suitcase, small Paul went to Newark airport, boarded an Eastern Air Transport plane for Miami, there to change to Pan American Airways, to spend his Easter holidays with his parents in Cuba...
...extra space available in a Boeing mail plane at Chicago have been able to fly from New York to San Francisco without an overnight stop. But beginning this week (April 1) through service with trimotored passenger planes is open to everyone, by virtue of new schedules on National Air Transport (New York-Chicago) and Boeing Air Transport (Chicago-San Francisco). Passengers leaving New York about 9 a. m. transfer at Chicago in midafternoon, fly all night (in darkness over lighted airway from Iowa City to Salt Lake City) to land in San Francisco shortly after noon (31 hr.). Eastbound passengers...
Exposition, Although not complete when opened (few expositions are), that at Buenos Aires last week was a most creditable performance. Featured was British transport apparatus of all sorts: cars, motorboats, planes, railway equipment. English jam, rolls, chocolate, pickles and crackers were also prominent. Wondering South Americans strolled through a "mimic London," admired the Tower, London Bridge, and something called "A Bit of Piccadilly...
Since 1928 the aeronautical map of South America has shifted repeatedly under the struggle of U. S., French and German companies for route-dominance. Last week the speculative eyes of air transport men turned again to South America. France's great Compagnie Generate Aeropostale was in difficulty. It was virtually bankrupt. Its pilots were flying without pay. It might have to withdraw...