Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long ago learned to lay great lengths of pipe overland to transport water, petroleum, natural gas, sewage. Georges Claude of France is the prophet and pioneer of laying great lengths of pipe on an ocean floor, to conduct seawater from the cold bottom to a shore station. Professor Claude believes that power can be generated at unheard-of cheapness by utilizing the temperature differential between the cold bottom-water and water from the ocean's surface warmed by a tropic sun. Twice he has tried and failed at Matanzas Bay, Cuba, to lower a mile-long pipe six feet...
Detroit Aircraft Corp., promoters of the demonstration, announced the device (developed by Russell Parachute Co.) might be optional equipment on some of their 1931 models. The experimental 'chute weighed less than 100 lb. Designers said a model weighing 130 to 160 lb. could be installed in heavy transport and mail planes...
...trend was distinctly leftward. Neither Congress Chairman John Beard (a fusty old ex-insurance canvasser) nor the Labor Government's representative Home Secretary John Robert Clynes seemed able to stem the drift. In the end square-shouldered Ernest Bevin, fat, rumbling-voiced, forceful Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, emerged as the hero of the current Congress session...
...fight to the fore in a great Trade Union Congress stamps a man as a comer. Moreover the widespread Transport Union of which Mr. Bevin is Secretary is one of the best vote getters in all Britain. Cor respondents saw in his leadership of 'Labor's reaction against "rationalization" last week a popular lever by which hefty Ernest Bevin may presently jack himself up to cabinet rank...
...flight from New York. The mob of 20,000 rushed the lines of police and national guardsmen with as much mad enthusiasm as though the plane had flown direct from Paris. At length a wedge of guards forced a lane to the Southern Air Transport administration building where Mayor J. Waddy Tate and Attorney Cullen F. Thomas (for Governor Moody) offered the visitors the freedom of Dallas...