Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brightest young men in the present British Government is dapper, self-confident Major Leslie Hore-Belisha. With a fine record as Financial Secretary to the Treasury under Neville Chamberlain, he was made Minister of Transport in June when Press and Government began worrying about the alarming number of fatal automobile accidents in Britain. During most of the summer they have averaged about 150 a week...
...recognize, of course," said the Minister of Transport, "that at first some motorists may, in certain circumstances, sound their horns almost instinctively. ... As a general rule however, if a pedestrian suddenly steps off the pavement in front of a car, the motorist must stop without sounding his horn...
...first thing the McGuffey deputies did after the Mayor's house was blasted was to arrest Okey O'Dell. The first thing the aroused citizenry did when it got up that morning was to form a motorcade, storm the jail, seize Mr. O'Dell, transport him none too gently to the county line. "It's about time," remarked Mayor Ott's indignant wife, "something was done...
...until the post-Lindbergh aviation boom did real success come to Sikorsky in the U. S. From his factory in Bridgeport, Conn., since then, has gone many an amphibian to the U. S. Navy, many a transport to Pan American Airways, many an air-yacht to U. S. tycoons. Two years ago his Russian mechanics built the world's first giant amphibian (S-40), the famed 40-passenger Yankee Clipper used on Pan American's over-water routes...
...speed of 192 m.p.h., the 8-42 will be the world's biggest and fastest airplane in regular over-water service. Last April in her first test-flights she broke two world's altitude-with-load records, and with her performance last week now holds all existing transport seaplane records. Following her acceptance by PAA last week she flew non-stop from Bridgeport to Miami (1,300 mi.) for shakedown cruises at the company's Dinner Key Base...