Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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July 6-Aug. 10-International Transport Exposition; at Poznan, Poland...
Mystery. Fast trains travel the 350 mi. from Montreal to Manhattan in ten hours. Scheduled transport planes fly the distance in four hours. Last week Dale ("Red") Jackson, co-holder of the world's refueling flight record (TIME, Aug. 12) took off from Montreal in a Travel Air "Mystery" ship (TIME, Feb. 24), pulled up in a triumphant zoom over New York's Curtiss Airport (Valley Stream, L. I.) 1 hr. 55 min. later, a record. The "Mystery" ship's average speed had been...
...Aviation Corporation of Delaware was incorporated in March 1929, with an authorized capitalization of 10,000,000 shares which has since been reduced to 5,000,000 shares. Inasmuch as the planes of its transport subsidiaries fly more than 20,000 miles daily in scheduled operations, serving 52 cities in the United States and Canada, and these subsidiaries also hold one foreign and n of the 25 domestic air mail contracts, the corporation can hardly be listed among the lesser groups in the aviation industry...
...potent Avco, all credit as a "very great aviation group" and to a staff writer a reprimand for omitting it. He had plane manufacturing units in mind, of which Avco, principally a transport group, has only two (Fairchild, Kreider-Reisners) whereas Curtiss-Wright has seven, United five, Detroit...
...trans-Atlantic service, by Zeppe lins as big as the Graf, will be a reality in September 1931. During his visit Dr. Eckener conferred with officials of Na tional City Bank, United Aircraft & Trans port Co., Union Carbide Co., Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., all associated in the new International Zeppelin Transport Corp. With a showman's flair for secrecy, he would reveal only that the U. S. terminal would be "somewhere between Washington and Baltimore." Newsmen soon discovered that his representatives had been scrutinizing an air field at flat Hybla Valley in Virginia, ten miles south of Washington...