Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...premises cited above would be to indicate a certain dullness of perception. For him to gaze upon them and to deny their staring implication is, palpably enough, in the best style, but one is compelled to remark that it reflects no consuming courage. It will require courage to transport the course structure to its proper place in the academic system, to subordinate it to the tutorial establishment, to make its very existence dependent on the quality of its direction. It will mean treading on a great many well-polished toes. It is, admittedly, no task for an undecided executive. Perhaps...
Then came that sad day in August 1923, when George Christian, returning from Alaska on the transport Henderson, had a digestive upset from some canned food or from some crab meat given him by the good people of Sitka. The upset would not have been serious if one night in San Francisco President Harding, whom he was accompanying, had not suddenly died of the same indisposition...
Engines. Last week Clarence Duncan Chamberlin marched into print with a charge that the increase in transport accidents since last summer was due to the inability of new twin-engined planes to take off and fly safely on one engine. Few nights later a twin-engined Curtiss Condor of American Airways, flown by Dean Smith, onetime Byrd antarctic pilot, had engine trouble between Buffalo and Detroit, flopped down, with nine passengers and a crew of three, upon the thinly iced surface of Lake St. Clair, near Windsor. Ont. With wheels retracted, the plane bumped through the ice while the lower...
Fastest. Howling tailwinds blew one United Air Lines transport from Chicago to Newark (736 mi.) in 3 hr. 17 min., another from Cleveland to Newark (411 mi.) in 1 hr. 41 min., fastest passenger flights on record...
Besides those gloomy figures Director Vidal contemplated the paradox that while there are 14,000 licensed pilots in the land there are only 7,000 licensed planes (including some 600 of each employed on transport lines). Also there are 11,000 student pilots, 8,500 mechanics-potentially 33,500 new plane-owners right at hand. The reason for this situation was simple. Since airplanes are practically handmade, you cannot buy much of a ship for less than $2,000; and if you want room for two or three extra passengers it is apt to cost...