Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Newark Airport one noon last week climbed The Southerner, American Airlines' crack transcontinental transport. Southward it flew through perfect flying weather, halting briefly for passengers at Philadelphia, Washington, Nashville. Aboard the 11-ton, twin-motored Douglas was W. R. Dyess, WPAdministrator for Arkansas, on the way home. Partners W. S. Hardwick and David A. Chernus, engineers, and wealthy young Frank C. Hart, head of Hartol Products Corp., were making business trips. Young Charles Altschul, nephew of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman, amused himself by experimenting with his new candid camera. Mrs. Samuel Horovitz of Boston...
...might have mopped up all these subsidiary questions, the first two in acting on the case of Louisiana rice millers who obtained a temporary injunction against payment of processing taxes (TIME, Dec. 2), the third in deciding the case of a Texan who sued a railroad which refused to transport his cotton because the Bankhead Act's taxes had not been paid on the shipment...
...when good war news came in from both the North Front and the South. Premature "little rains," not due until next month, made them believe that Allah, Jehovah and their assorted pagan gods were sending the 1936 Rainy Season ahead of time to save Ethiopia. Italy's motor transport was immobilized in many places by the "little rains," wheels spinning impotently in sticky red mud. Sodden and soaked Italian bombing planes could not get off the ground. Only light Italian ships were able to fly in pursuit of non-existent Ethiopian planes or to scout for Ethiopians invisible beneath...
...designed to improve defense against a possible invasion of Egypt by Italian forces from Libya. Bloodshed of this sort was being taken for granted in British garrisons throughout Egypt and the Sudan. As if acting in great emergency and unable to wait a few days for a regular British transport, the War Office took over from Cunard the small liner Scythia to be filled with troops in England and rushed to Egypt...
...same day last week appeared two reviews of one phase of U. S. transport in the past year...