Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of his speech, General Brown enunciated a truth so homely that the industry has been hoping it would die. Said he: "The very life of the passenger transport industry is in the balance...
...became as cheap last week to travel across the U. S. by air as by rail. Transcontinental Air Transport cut its fare to $159.92.** Best railroad transportation costs...
T.A.T.'s fare-cut was one more evidence of the Empty Seat Problem and the operators' determination to solve it, even during the sparsest flying season of the year. Other transport companies are trying analogous traffic stimulators. Last month Universal offered mileage books at exactly the railroad-Pullman rates. Last week Western Air Express offered similar rates to all public officials along its line. Colonial Airways offered its passengers freedom from tipping, and hot soup...
...test under extremely rigorous weather conditions, and to afford a very broad opportunity for testing flying equipment in zero temperatures" the ist Pursuit Group of the Army Air Corps long planned a frigid flight from Mt. Clemens, Mich., to Spokane, Wash., and back. The planes, 18 pursuit and four transports (one carrying short wave radio apparatus), equipped with skis and other pertinent paraphernalia for operation under extreme cold and bad weather, were ready to fly last week. A first delay came when the planes were plated with ice after an all night storm. Then one of the transport planes crunched...
Stumped. In heavy snowfall, darkling skies an airplane groped around for Stout Field, Indianapolis, last week. The pilot misjudged the size of the field and overshot it. A snowcovered stump at the end tore away the left wheel and part of the fuselage. Transcontinental Air Transport had to mark up one dead, two injured...