Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: . . . Just before going over to my club for lunch today I stopped by the next-door room here in the dormitory to look over your magazine which had just come. What l saw under Transport made me not quite so eager for lunch. ... It could have been left out without any detraction from your story at all. It wasn't of nationwide interest, and it didn't have any special significance. ... I really didn't think TIME went in for that sort of thing. ... I am one of those who are pretty enthusiastic about flying...
Before being appointed to excavate hard soil for Russia's first subway, engaging Engineer Ifremov was in charge of the Moscow Department of Mechanical Transport, ran it into a deficit of one million rubles before he was promoted...
...gathered speed under the surge of its four Hornet motors. After a half-minute run, the 21-ton Pan American Clipper lifted easily from the waters of San Francisco Bay. headed out through the Golden Gate under a brilliant mid-afternoon sun. The world's first transport plane designed specifically for transocean service was finally on its way over the Pacific to Hawaii on the first stage of Pan American Airways' projected 8,000-mi. ocean airway to China. Four years of intensive work had prepared this ship and this crew for this flight...
...years after, the crop was 96,000 bales. By 1835 it was more than a million bales and by 1840 it had reached two million. For this sweeping upsurge the cotton gin could not take all the credit. Carding and spinning machines were developed, looms were fashioned better, railroad transport made its appearance. For 20 years the cotton crop has fluctuated around 15,000,000 bales, is now being held down to about 12,000,000 bales...
...Puerto Carreno, Colombia, the chief of a hostile Indian tribe sent his braves prowling under the fuselage of a giant trimotored Ford transport plane to steal the "big bird's eggs," so that the chief could hatch planes of his own to fight the white...