Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grounded" nearly seven years, Bert Acosta was back in the air. The Department of Commerce, convinced of his reformation, finally lifted its ban, granted him a "learner's permit." After five hours solo, the best living pilot was scheduled this week to take his flight test for a transport license. Said Alford J. ("Al") Williams, famed onetime Navy stunt pilot: "Aviation needs Acosta badly. Seeing him take a ship off the ground is the best eye tonic I've had in years...
...Army transport St. Mihiel at Seward, Alaska last week trudged the second & final contingent of Depression-whipped U. S. farmers who had taken up the Government's offer of a new life in Matanuska Valley (TIME, May 6; LETTERS, May 27). Leaving their wives & children behind for a few days, 136 men swung aboard day coaches, rode all night to Palmer. There they lined up with their 67 predecessors, shuffled past the colony's genial Chief Don Irwin, dipping their hands into his hat. A slip of paper told each man which 40 acres, barring swaps, failure...
Already in the harbor was the Brazilian transport Siqueira with 600 army and navy cadets aboard, and Brazil's pride, the brass band of the Brazilian Military Academy. Up to the dock where waited President Justo, and in their shiniest toppers, his entire Cabinet, warped the great São Paulo. Guns belched out national salutes, and in the midst of the hubbub there was suddenly a great banging of crate lids and fluttering of wings. Members of the Buenos Aires Pigeon Society were releasing 10,000 bewildered white birds, each with one wing striped blue and white...
...extravagance was the farmers' choice of transport. Washington is divided into three taxicab zones. A ride anywhere in Zone 1 costs 20<<4 and Zone i covers practically all the business and government building section. Since five can ride as cheaply as one, a two-mile trip can be made for less money in one of Washington's taxis (mostly Chevrolets) than on one of Washington's street cars (fare 10?) whose routes are so confused by the city's intricate plan as to be practically unintelligible to a stranger. Rich visitors sometimes tip as much...
...Fredericia in Jutland last week. Bitterly cold for May, it was snowing hard, but that could not chill His Majesty's verve. He was about to inaugurate Denmark's most important post-War project, the longest bridge in continental Europe, which will revolutionize the country's transport system. Traveling more comfortably, Madam Minister Ruth Bryan Owen, the rest of Copenhagen's diplomatic corps and some 700 other officials came down for the ceremony on two special trains...