Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee is seeking 100 men who will act as ushers at the Rindge Technical School rally and help with its organization. Every day students are doing odd jobs at the Cambridge headquarters. On Election Day at least 100 men will serve as watchers in strongly Democratic wards and help transport voters to the polls...
...aviation enthusiasts were little concerned that a British racing plane had won the world's greatest air race. What pleased them greatly was that in second place was a U. S. transport plane powered by U. S. engines; that not far behind, roaring over Australia, was another U. S. transport plane flown by U. S. Pilot Roscoe Turner. Mrs. Aquilla Derryberry Turner of Corinth, Miss, did not raise her boy Roscoe to be a flyer...
Sirs: . . . Finally TIME has performed the neatest bit of magic to date-it has converted gliding and soaring into Transport, of all things [TIME, Oct. 8]. Poor impractical me, I had always had the benighted notion that motorless flying was just pure useless sport. I'm glad TIME put me right, though. Now I won't have to wait any longer for the $700 airplane; I'll just get myself a sailplane and soar out to see the world. . . . ROBERT B. RENFRO...
...long time I have felt that TIME'S admirable coverage (editorially) should include a department on transportation, bringing us the news of all transport developments-in railroad, steamship and bus fields as well as in aeronautics. . . . Therefore, I am doubly pleased to see the new Transport column, and want to congratulate you on adding a feature which I am sure will interest all your readers. LUCIA LEWIS...
With its 200-m.p.h. Douglases linking the coasts in 14 hours, TWA this year set a new standard in air transport which other lines must sooner or later meet. Last week two major airlines famed for their safety records announced their entry into the superspeed class. Eastern Air Lines, which has flown 300,000 passengers 25,000,000 miles without a single fatality,* will operate an eight-hour express service from New York to Miami with a fleet of Douglases to be delivered by Jan. 1. Northwest Airlines, which in eight years has flown 80,000 passengers...