Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem of distribution. The necessitates a medium of exchange of purchasing power placed in the hands of the buyer. The Grub Stake Plan," Mr. Walker went on, "is simply this: first, a grub stake...grub, a pick, a shovel and a pan... for prospectors and placer panners; then transport to placer regions, where it has already been shown that fifty cents a day or better is the average recovery of gold; finally food, which might well be distributed by the Commissary Departments of the army and navy." This primary program, Mr. Walker pointed out, should be augmented by a course...
...Simmonds the two worst features of U. S. air transport are noise and "rumbling." The noise evil has been effectively attacked since his visit; the Curtiss "silent" Condor and the new Douglas Airliner have reduced cabin decibels to approximately the same level as a Pullman...
...Simmonds was correct about the feelings of oldtime pilots. In the old days of temperamental engines a good pilot always glided in, a poor pilot flew in. But that criterion has been outmoded by multi-motored ships and by modern engines which once warmed up, do not cut out. Transport operators hoot at the idea of danger in landing under power. They point out that at any moment during a landing, a pilot may need to gun his engines full blast to avoid collision, or to overcome a sudden shift of wind. Unless the engines have been turning over constantly...
...Errett Lobban Cord, the young man who is out to become his country's foremost transport tycoon by air, land and sea, last week added one more set-up to his system. Smith Engineering Co. of Cleveland was bought up by Cord Corp. which thereby acquired rights to manufacture Smith controllable pitch propellers. In airplanes, variable pitch propellers are like gear shifts in automobiles, allow engines to run at efficient speed under different load conditions...
...much a common carrier as a regularly scheduled plane, a railroad train or a taxicab. He also denied to all common carriers the right to limit or dodge responsibility for passengers' death or injury in accidents. Lawyers took this to mean that private owners of planes transporting paying passengers are as liable as air transport companies...