Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tickets issued by most U. S. air transport lines is a contract clause reading: "In the event of the injury or death of the holder due to any cause for which this company is legally liable, the company's liability is limited to" $5,000 or $10,000. A 1931 award set the precedent that all planes operating on regular advertised schedules are "common carriers" like railroads, just as liable as railroads for the death or injury of passengers. Hence in most States the clause is meaningless except in a few Western States which limit liability in case...
Married. John Luther ("Jack") Maddux, 45, president of Transcontinental Air Transport (which absorbed his Maddux Air Lines and is now the holding company for Transcontinental & Western Air Inc., of which he is first vice president); and Rowena Wright of Los Angeles; in Forest Hills...
...Japanese took Conspirator Pilsudski so seriously that they made a solemn agreement by the terms of which prisoners of war who turned out to have been born in the then Russian Poland were kept separate from other "Russian" prisoners in Japan while Polish organizations arranged for their transport to Polish colonies in the neutral U.S. Items: 1906, et seq., bands of Polish guerrillas or bandits organized by Activist Pilsudski were charged by the Imperial Police with raids and bank robberies all over southern Russia, similar to those staged during the same period by Activist Stalin. The stolen money, in both...
...mighty cheer went up from a crowd of 1,000, mostly Negroes, at Atlantic City Airport one day last week as the good airplane Pride of Atlantic City floated to earth. Out of the cabin stepped two stalwart Negroes, C. Alfred Anderson, transport pilot, and Dr. Albert E. Forsythe ("The Flying Dentist") who holds a private license. They had just completed the first flight across the U. S. and back ever made by Negroes. Elapsed time: 11 days...
Skipper. There is good reason for Juan Terry Trippe, chief of the world's biggest air transport system, to think in terms of trade routes, to call his airplanes "clippers," to have at his desk corner an enormous mariner's globe-not of much use since it is an antique and lacks the names of many places on P. A. A.'s lines. Salt water is in Juan Trippe's blood. His family settled on Maryland's sleepy Eastern shore in 1664. Great-great-grandfather John Trippe in 1804 sailed as third officer...