Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face with the question of sending an army to Europe and found that the General Staff had never considered such a thing. No one in authority had any definite idea how many men might be needed, how they should be organized or equipped nor where the tonnage to transport and supply them was to come from. ... To find such a lack of foresight on the part of the General Staff was not calculated to inspire confidence in its ability...
Frederick Brant Rentschler, chairman of United Aircraft & Transport Corp. was made a director of Hartford National Bank & Trust Co. In Hartford is U. A. T.-controlled Pratt & Whitney Aircraft...
...those exported), monoplanes forged ahead of biplanes (1,143 to 1,092) although biplanes were ahead at mid-year Most conspicuous change was in the ranks of licensed pilots-an increase of 33% from 10,215 to 15,280. Of these, 385 are women of whom 35 have transport licenses. As it did last year California leads the pilot list with 2,852; New York is second, 1,641; Nevada last, 13. Of 1,088 gliders and 178 glider pilots, California had most-235 craft, 80 pilots. New York passed California with total aircraft of 1,193 to California...
...Combined systems of United Aircraft & Transport Corp. have a total of 30 ground stations. Outside the U. S., Pan American Airways Inc. operates 43. -In such manner, by telegraph operators chatting across the country in their idle moments, are the new (and old) bawdy jokes given currency swift and wide...
...consequent revolutionary chaos in which the West will be submerged." Major Bratt's prophetic descriptions of future strategy are arresting. The massive infantry armies of the last War are already obsolete, he thinks. Infantry of the future will move in smaller units, made more mobile by rapid motor transport. But the most significant new development was foreshadowed in the Allied campaign of 1919? planned but never executed: an attack from the air on Germany's industrial centres. Supremacy in the air, says Major Bratt, will decide the issue in the next European...