Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Denver, Colo. has had notorious trouble with Indians, dueling, prostitution and the 16-1 ratio of silver and gold. More lasting than any of these has been Denver's trouble with transport. Founded in 1858, this roaring frontier town presently grew into one of the West's most important cities, with some 300,000 inhabitants. But not until 1934 did it succeed in getting on a transcontinental railroad. That year, with a wild barbecue and great civic jubilation, Denver finally holed through the Moffat Tunnel under the continental divide, got a direct train route to the East.* Meanwhile...
...eastwest, Denver has only a north-south airline. To get to either coast a Denverite has a choice of flying north for 97 mi. on Wyoming Air Service to Cheyenne and United Air Lines' transcontinental route or south for 419 mi. on Wyoming Air Service and Varney Air Transport to catch TWA at Albuquerque. Though Denver and the airlines have long been aware that both could profit by altering this uneconomic situation, they have been prevented from doing so by an opposition as steep as the scarp of the Rockies which so long held back the railroads-the attitude...
Past ambitions of the Mauchs were to be baseball players, transport pilots, acrobats, firemen, G-Men. Both intend to go to college. Since even if Warners does not give them new contracts, options on their old one will give them each $900 a week by 1938, they should be able to afford it. Last fortnight the Mauchs were in New York for a holiday. This week they were back in Hollywood, ready to start work on the next Mauch picture-probably an adaptation of Hugh Walpole's book, A Prayer...
Spurred by the apparent immediacy of transatlantic transport test flights, New York City last week finally bestirred itself to make ready for them. In Manhattan, the Sinking Fund Commission voted to acquire and improve North Beach Airport at a cost of some $8,000,000. On Flushing Bay, L. I., near the site of the coming World's Fair, it can be reached from midtown in 20 minutes over the new Triborough Bridge...
...Chamberlain based there; wild Bert Acosta cavorted in the sky; Charles Lindbergh was a frequent visitor; Giuseppe Bellanca there tested his new ships. Chief of Teterboro's prides was the No. 1 U. S. air plant of the period-Fokker-building not only most of the big commercial transports but such famed planes as the Josephine Ford which Admiral Byrd flew over the North Pole. Volatile, ambitious Tony Fokker wanted to make Teterboro the No. 1 U. S. airport. He might have succeeded had not Knute Rockne's death in a Fokker transport in 1931 banished Fokker planes...