Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...butterfly nets or with fox terriers, feeds them cow's milk through a nipple. As soon as the young pronghorns are around two months old and weigh about 25 Ib., Rancher Belden sets about delivering them to zoos, which are always eager for them. Since most means of transport are too arduous for the delicate fawns, he uses the Ryan monoplane of his friend Bill Monday, onetime cowpuncher...
This advice came from a large transport plane circling over Cook County. In it, getting a bird's eye view of the area, were a county highway chief and a local judge. When either of them spotted a traffic jam below or detected excessive road friction due to accident or highway construction, he spoke into a short-wave radio transmitter, ordered police-squad automobiles to the spot or offered advice directly to motorists by means of a rebroadcast by Station WBBM...
...expired. Later the Vicomte de Sibour, with a plane borrowed from London's Drygoods Sportsman H. Gordon Selfridge Jr. (TIME, Aug. 17), began taking off tourists, four at a time. To rescue the 19 remaining, General Queipo de Llano sent from Seville a giant German Junkers transport, escorted by a scouting plane. This outfit safely evacuated Granada's U. S. tourists, flying them to Seville, whence they jounced by bus to Cadiz, boarded the U. S. cruiser Oklahoma and were taken to British Gibraltar, mostly dead broke. French tourists in Granada were not permitted to leave by officers...
...Year later, after he had also taught her how to walk wings, make parachute jumps, hang by her teeth or swing from a trapeze on one plane to another in midair, they were married, went barnstorming as "The Flying Omlies." In 1927 Mrs. Omlie won her transport license, first ever granted to a U. S. woman. In 1929-30-31 she walked off with the chief feminine prizes at the National Air Races. Finally, in 1932, after a half-million miles in the air, two serious crackups, she quit active flying, took a desk job with the National Advisory Committee...
...Cheered announcements that 4,500 miles of main British motor roads are being "nationalized" by dynamic Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha. Today British motor cars do not stop dead, as they are supposed to do, before every "Belisha Beacon" at which pedestrians theoretically have the right-of-way to cross (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), but Mr. Hore-Belisha is capitalizing on the publicity his beacons won to carry out vital reforms. Shocking is the fact that two-thirds of Britain's boasted "Great North Road" from London to Scotland is too narrow for two lanes of traffic. Hundreds...