Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration's latest airmail plans unless it was the small independent operators who thought they saw their chance to get into the field. Democratic Senators O'Mahoney, Logan, McGill and Erickson decried it. Airline operators, rumbling concerted protest, argued that lines not now engaged in air transport could not get ready to carry mail 45 days hence. Most vociferous was President Richard W. Robbins of Transcontinental & Western Air ("The Lindbergh Line"). Using such words as "insane," "crazy quilt," "ghastly blunder," "gorgeous comedy of public error," Mr. Robbins described last week's call for temporary bids...
Josef Stalin heard last week in his mind's ear the groans of the dead and dying, the crack and crunch of wood & steel, which went to make up Russia's railroad disasters of the last month. He issued a decree: "Transport must improve. Some workers are so inefficient as almost to be wreckers. Unless their work improves, allegiance to the Communist Party will not save them." High spots in a month's wrecking which the Government dribbled out to the Press days late...
Last week Stalin spoke his mind to young Andrey A. Andreyev who made such a name as Russia's ablest industrial "troubleshooter" two years ago that the Dictator promoted him to be Commissar for Land Transport. Result was another decree, aimed chiefly at Andreyev's railroadmen: Any worker who falls short of his quota "either in quality or quantity" will be fined; if his failures are due to abnormal working conditions, the deductions from his pay will not exceed 33% ; if his failures are his own fault, 100% will be the limit. After that, Stalin and Andreyev waited...
...formal order was only an oversight. Most of Canada quietly took him at his word. Nevertheless, revelation of the Government's new interest in C. P. R. seemed to bring one step nearer that inevitable day when Canadian Pacific and Canadian National will be merged into a single transport system spanning two oceans and a continent...
...approved of the contract annulments, he replied: "There seems to have been plenty of reason for doing so, but whether sufficient I don't know." Requested to identify the airlines which he had elsewhere asserted were purchasing inferior equipment from associated manufacturing companies, he named Eastern Air Transport (owned by North American Aviation, Inc.) and United Air Lines (owned by United Aircraft & Transport Corp.). Next day appeared Capt. Edward V. ("Eddie'') Rickenbacker, famed World War ace and oldtime automobile racer, now vice president of North American Aviation, Inc. When he finished a prepared statement defending the companies...