Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some $2,500,000 was spent to check the 539,541 valid registrations (528,005 votes were cast, of which 2,249 were invalid); to set up 860 voting booths in 83 Saar voting areas; to furnish free rail and bus transport within the Saar from voters' homes to the place where they resided when the Treaty of Versailles was signed; and in salaries to 860 neutral poll watchers who were paid about $65 each for their services on the voting day, cheap at the price since they included 360 stolid, super-meticulous Dutch burgomasters. The troops supplied...
...land there was more trouble. East of the Mississippi, from Alabama to Canada, airports announced "Zero-zero" weather, and air transport stood stock-still. For three days not a plane reached or left the world's busiest port at Newark. In Chicago a lost, invisible plane thrummed round & round the 30-story Furniture Mart for hours. In Alabama Lieut. James L. Majors, U. S. A., tried to land in a fog-wrapped field, crashed, died...
...microphone with Clown Eddie Cantor stepped publicity-courting Minister of Transport Major Leslie Hore-Belisha last week. "Despite the greatest government and police activity." he reported, "there were 187 deaths on British roads during Christmas week, compared to 160 in the previous week." Shrilled Clown Cantor, after Major Hore-Belisha had appealed for more careful driving, "If I were a girl I would never let a boy drive with one arm around...
World's first woman transport pilot was Ruth Nichols, who two years ago flew passengers regularly between New York and Boston. Not until last week, however, did any woman fly the U. S. airmail. On its regular Washington-Detroit mail & passenger run Central Airlines put as co-pilot Helen Richey of Pittsburgh, co-holder (with the late Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis) of the world's refueling endurance flight record for women (9 days 21 hr. 42 min.). Spinster Richey, 25, carried seven passengers, a big load of mail & express, on her first transport flight...
Meanwhile 3,000 sweating coolies were finishing up the Dictator's new war base air field at Haichow, 250 miles from Shanghai. To Generalissimo Chiang's somewhat decadent henchman-in-arms "Young Marshal" Chang Huseh-liang, Boeing Airplane Co. delivered last week a superspeed, de luxe transport plane, luxuriously upholstered and bristling with chromium gadgets...