Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nurse, amateur detective. At Curtiss Field her small, helpless appearance at first evoked laughter. Later she was told she would never make a flyer. Indomitable, she kept on, got a secretarial job at a flying school to pay for lessons, became the 15th U. S. woman to get a transport license. For her able 17,000-mi. solo flight around South America last year, in which she "lost nothing-not even a garter," she received a national trophy from the Ligue Inter-Rationale des Aviateurs. Few months ago she became the first woman to win the coveted Scheduled Air Transport...
...term "Baby Clipper" was first used in news stories on May 3 describing the new Fairchild high-speed amphibian, fastest single-engine amphibian transport in the world...
Under the heading Transport in TIME, June 17 appears a headline "Baby Clipper," beneath which is a description of the demonstration flights with the new twin-engined Sikorsky...
Meanwhile George, Duke of Kent-"P. G." to his intimates-was up and about London, reported by the Daily Express to have had "the thrill of a lifetime." This occurred when H. R. H. descended into an underground station accompanied by pompous Lord Ashfield, chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board, and proceeded to drive an ordinary subway train up to 40 m.p.h. Suddenly the automatic signals went from green to red, the Duke of Kent removed his hand from the "dead man's handle" and the trainload of ordinary passengers, who had no idea who their motorman...
Slight, handsome Dave Merwin, 35, was something of a wild man, a jolly drinker, an able cartoonist, at Harvard. After college and a round-the-world trip, with tiger-hunting in Indo-China, he quieted down, succeeded his ailing uncle as publisher of the Pantagraph. A licensed transport pilot, he flies about in his orange-colored airplane called Scoop, loves to whisk his small son & daughter 100 miles or so for an ice cream soda. To the Cowles team. Publisher Merwin takes financial wizardry and a profound knowledge of all newspaper mechanical operations which both brothers lack...