Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...munitions from Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa. The King of Kings was supposed to have turned down this proposal on the ground that he needed his troops in those two towns to protect foreigners from his civilian subjects. Next offer was to spare the road if Ethiopia promised to transport no munitions on it. Haile Selassie appeared to leap at this idea. Since the League lifted its arms embargo against Ethiopia, guns and ammunition have been coming into the black empire, not by way of the railroad from Djibouti but by motor truck to Harar, 125 miles from the British...
Sirs: TIME, until now fair and accurate where Sikorsky Aircraft are concerned, goes into a flat spin when in the Oct. 7 issue under Transport it refers to the Sikorsky Clipper as "Far outmoded by the new Martin Clipper, which has three times as much carrying power." Every schoolboy knows the Martin boat is some 25% larger than the Sikorsky and that carrying power-whatever this may be-cannot vary far from this ratio. The size is not everything. Pan American Airways, for whom both boats were built, has placed goodly orders for Sikorsky Clippers, some of them within...
Sitting in his office at Cheyenne, late one night last week, the airport radio operator heard the calm voice of United Airlines Pilot H. A. ("No Collision") Collison report that his big, twin-motored Boeing transport, bound from San Francisco to New York with twelve aboard, was but a few miles away, 4,000 ft. up, ready to glide down for the scheduled Cheyenne landing. Simultaneously, another plane approached from the East. "Please delay landing until further orders while Westbound plane comes in," radioed the operator to Pilot Collison. There was no answer. The operator signaled again. Still there came...
...Long exiled by Turkey's Dictator Kemal, "Old Eagle Beak," as he is known? to U. S. correspondents, still clings to his Ottoman fez and grey-green World War uniform. In his charge was one of Ethiopia's prides, a fleet of 20 U. S. motor trucks used to transport black troopers across the desert to rivers and water holes that they must soon de fend. Neither mud nor water could stop them. At a river bank 100 blacks lifted each truck to their sturdy shoulders and waded across...
...from Yale, started in the Pennsylvania's Altoona shops at 5¢ an hour. In 1917 he went to France when Pershing cabled Secretary Baker to send him "the ablest railroad man in the U. S.," was commissioned Brigadier General (admiring soldiers called him "General Attaboy"), set up a rail transport system that won him decorations from many an Allied government. An able handler and picker of men, he shrewdly chose to cooperate with or absorb air and bus lines instead of fighting them, hired the late Ivy Ledbetter Lee to humanize his big railroad in the public...