Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aligned against him were onetime Minister of Transport Herbert Morrison who at the end of last week's conference loomed large as a candidate for Laborite Prime Minister, and "Uncle Arthur" Henderson who last week resigned from his 25-year-old secretaryship of the Party without, however, losing his influence in the Party's affairs. But even more formidable than these antagonists were Britain's 6,500,000 Laborites themselves of whom nearly two-and-a-half million sent postcards to the conference voting against Sir Stafford's proposals. Deluged by this repudiation, Sir Stafford was content to take...
...airmail system would become self-supporting within three or four years. Until that time, said Mr. Farley, in nearly the exact words of onetime Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, it would be the Post Office Department's policy to continue financial assistance to mail-carrying transport lines. As to new airlines, the Department's position was that it was economically unsound to finance them in competition "with the lines we are trying to build...
...with the Club as safe as it can possibly be. The Club ship is at all times in the hands of expert licensed mechanics who constantly check the condition of the plane, and attend to any needed repairs and engine overhauls. All club flying is supervised by a licensed Transport Pilot who gives instruction to beginners, and checks out all members for cross-country flying...
...From 1930 to 1933 United Aircraft & Transport Corp.'s business in Germany totaled $59,000. In 1933 it jumped to $272,000, and in the first eight months of 1934 to $1,445,000. Biggest German purchases: unmounted Pratt & Whitney engines. The Senate committee promptly concluded that United was helping Germany rearm in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. But "it was not the understanding" of United officials that their German sales were for military purposes...
...made national news. Flying his nightly Chicago run, he took off from St. Paul with five passengers, headed for Minneapolis, ten miles away. Circling to land, he heard a small siren wail in the cockpit, saw a tiny light flash on the control board, knew at once what every transport pilot dreads: his retractable landing-gear was jammed. Back he headed for St. Paul, hoping the plane's vibration would shake the wheels down. They refused to budge. For nearly two hours he circled helplessly over St. Paul while Co-Pilot John Woodhead reassured passengers with tales of previous...