Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aeronautical eyes turned to Detroit this week, not so much for the All-American aircraft show there exhibited, as for six stock commercial airplanes there equipped with the 225 h. p., oil-burning Packard Diesel type engine. Largest of the six is a Ford all-metal transport, powered with three Packard Diesels in place of the Wright Whirlwinds customarily installed. Ford announced that Diesels would be optional equipment in future. So did Stinson Aircraft Corp. Chief virtues of the engine, which has been developed in the U. S. with considerable secrecy by Packard Motors Co.: low cost of fuel, reduction...
...main event, la-dees and gen-tul-men, is for supremacy in the Industry, with control of National Air Transport, Inc. as a sidepurse. Winner take...
...years ago John D. Clark, 46-year-old millionaire, resigned his positions as President of Midwest Refining Co., director of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, Vice President of Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co. Instead of retiring he went to Johns Hopkins University to study economics and law. Last week the University of Denver got a unique businessman-professor and Mr. Clark fulfilled a lifelong desire. He joined the Denver faculty to teach economics...
...commander, busy Dr. Hugo Eckener, arrived in Manhattan from Germany. He was closeted with Banker Mitchell. They signed an agreement, announced the result of the financial potboiling: under the guidance of National City, such companies as Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., Aluminum Co. of America, Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., United Aircraft & Transport Corp., subscribed for stock in International Zeppelin Transport Corp. Paul Weeks Litchfield, president of Goodyear-Zeppelin, was re-elected president of International Zeppelin. Col. Edward Andrew Deeds, chairman of the executive committee of United Aircraft & Transport, was made chairman of the board. Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsaker was made vice president...
Significant was the inclusion of United Aircraft & Transport, profitably enterprising merger of plane, motor and transport companies (TIME, March 31). Said Dr. Eckener: "This is of particular importance. It means that the airplane and the airship, long regarded as competitors ... are joining in a cooperative enterprise. I can say that the Dornier interests (likewise) are with us in this project...