Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...existed to sterilize Father Damien's mouldering bones and dust, according to President Frederick E. Trotter of the Honolulu Board of Health. In an undersized, zinc-lined coffin of koa wood, the remains were flown back to Honolulu, where they lay in state. Aboard the U. S. Army transport Republic, the coffin was to be carried to Cristobal, C. Z., transferred to the Belgian schoolship Mercator, taken on to Antwerp. In Belgium the Fathers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary, Father Damien's order, have already set in motion the long, deliberate machinery by which the Roman...
...knew of none available that was satisfactory. Into this breach jumped young Donald Wills Douglas with a set of radical aeronautical ideas which he persuaded Transcontinental & Western Air to back. Out of that collaboration rose the DC-1, a 9-ton, twin-motored, low-wing monoplane which revolutionized air transport the world over. The first commercial transport plane the 12-year-old Douglas Aircraft Co. had ever built, it and the improved DC2 speedily lifted the company from insignificance to leadership. Simultaneously, the little Douglas factory at Santa Monica, Calif., grew into the world's largest airplane manufacturing plant...
...this came in Army contracts awarded month ago. Some $3,000,000 more came last week from the Navy in a contract for 114 torpedo bomber planes. The remnant is made up of orders for the DC2 and the new DC-3, better known as the DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport...
Because the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce is dominated by manufacturers, all the scheduled airlines in the U. S. last week withdrew from it, formed a new body called the Air Transport Association of America. Its purpose: Coordination of schedules, credit, advertising, buying power, engineering data. Its president: Colonel Edgar Staley Gorrell...
...apparatus for enlarging photographs, but the only thing he really liked was pottering round the garden, fixing things in the house. For years he had hardly gone out-side the gate. When he did, it took him hours to get anywhere, as he would carefully plan his "means of transport" ahead of time from guides that were out of date. He used soap only on Sundays, other days he merely rubbed the end of his nose with a wet towel...