Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Chicago-San Francisco air mail contract. Starting at scratch, he managed to get his planes in the air on time, made money, thus started what is now United Air Lines. This led to the formation of the first U. S. aviation trust-United Aircraft & Transport Corp.-which at once became the greatest power in the U. S. heavens. Meanwhile the Boeing plant continued to turn out top-notch planes, of which the finest was the famed 247-D-first twin-motored, low-wing, high-speed transport. Introduced in 1933, this ship outmoded the lumbering Fords and Fokkers, became standard...
...that has made it the most successful U. S. builder of lightweight streamline trains. Some 57 ft. long, its desert car consists of a shiny, Diesel-powered tractor to which is coupled a 36-ft. trailer shaped much like the observation car on Budd streamline trains. Operated by Nairn Transport Co., the new busses, of which there are two, make the journey in 15 hours instead of the 24 it took the heavy, conventional busses Nairn has been shuttling across the desert for 14 years. A passenger boards the bus late in the afternoon, takes a seat in a modern...
...much quoted by legalists, reads: Cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum (He who owns the soil owns above it to the sky). Until recently this principle of property ownership was generally accepted, and air rights above property still sell for vast sums.* But the advent of air transport has vastly complicated Accursius' ancient tenet. When aircraft pass over a man's land or over foreign territory, is it trespass...
...England in 1920 Parliament decided: "No action shall lie in respect of trespass or in respect of nuisance by reason of flight of aircraft over any property." The U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce has made transport flight illegal below 1,000 ft. above congested areas, 500 ft. elsewhere, except when landing. As yet, however, no final Federal decision has clarified the mass of contradictory lower court opinions on property rights v. air rights...
...other League Mandates "taken away from her after the World War," but such was not the meaning his amicable tone conveyed last week. †Reichsbank President Schacht, Foreign Minister von Neurath, Finance Minister von Krosigk, Chief of Staff General von Fritsch, Admiral of the Fleet Raeder, Rübenach (Transport) and Seldte (Labor...