Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July 1901, three years after the Battle of Manila Bay and only four months after the capture of rebellious Leader Emilio Aguinaldo, the Army transport Thomas sailed from San Francisco to the Philippines with an expeditionary force of some 600 U. S. schoolteachers. The "Thomasites," 170 of them women, had been sent by an idealistic nation to civilize the new little brown brothers not with Krag-Jorgensens but with schoolbooks. Their crowning accomplishment was the training of the nucleus of 25,000 English-speaking Filipino teachers who now staff the island schools. Those Thomasites who stayed, weathered cholera and plague...
...bleak night last December eight men flying north from Charleston, S. C. were strapped in their seats in an Eastern Air Lines transport, undisturbed by the rough air because their pilot was famed Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, whose exploits, besides flying U. S. mail in a bathing suit (see cut, p. 74), have included twice hopping the Atlantic (TIME, Sept. 14, 1936). Suddenly a thudding shiver ran through the plane as a wingtip sliced a treetop. Recalled Passenger W. T. Critchfield: "It sounded at first like a heavy truck running on gravel very fast. I looked at Saggio [a passenger...
...this point Mr. Critchfield's observations halted because he was knocked out. When he revived, the Douglas transport was wedged between two trees, minus its wings and considerably messed up. But only Pilot Merrill was badly hurt, with a broken jaw, a broken ankle. Overconfident, as he readily admitted, he had been led astray by bad weather-reporting and rain static on the radio, had come down through the overcast thinking he was at Newark, had found a hillside instead. By extraordinary luck and skill he managed to make a forced landing...
...from the private landing field of Douglas Aircraft Co. at Santa Monica, Calif, last week climbed a standard Douglas DC2 transport with a few subtle changes in wing design. When it landed again after buzzing back & forth over the Tehachapi Mountains for several hours, Douglas officials revealed that they had devised a satisfactory way to prevent the unique icing of ailerons which caused the crash of a Transcontinental & Western Air Douglas DC2 fortnight ago near Pittsburgh (TIME, April 5). Chief Engineer Arthur E. Raymond merely added a few inches to the underside of the wing in front of the slot...
...rate war, profit by each other's experiments. United and American agreed to lower their rates half as far as did TWA last year. TWA will now raise its rates to that level. In addition, the three lines agreed to set up the first rate structure in air transport history with three distinct classes of travel corresponding to railroad sleepers, chair-cars and day-coaches. As of May 1, the basic transcontinental fare will be $149.95.* This will buy a seat in a standard DC2 or DC-3. An extra fare of $4 will buy a swivel chair...