Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near the Fair's southern tip lies the Travel & Transport Building. From a grandstand across the street the visitor may see the oxcarts, covered wagons, automobiles, ships, trains, airplanes of a century's travel-all functioning, with operators in period costumes. All vehicles except the ships, among them Fulton's steamboat and the Baltimore Clipper, are originals. Baltimore & Ohio R. R.'s ancient Tom Thumb locomotive, a boiler on wheels, leads the way for the Royal Scot. Straight-eight automobiles purr behind the horseless carriages...
Year and a half ago Eastern Air Transport equipped one of its passenger planes with the Sperry "robot" pilot, a gyroscopic device which automatically keeps a plane on a set course (TIME. Oct. 19, 1931). In principle it was a success. But just as a human novice may fly a plane safely but clumsily, the robot pilot was awkward. Its worst fault was the same as the common fault of the human: slamming the controls this way & that. Besides jerking the ship about, it strained the controls. Since the robot first appeared, Sperry engineers and airline operators have been busy...
...Soviet Water Transport Commissariat further ordered chiefs of Russian ports to charge British ships higher port duties than the preferential duties paid under the old Soviet-British trade agreement...
...minutes following one such denial in a train I chanced to throw away a stale piece of my private supply of bread. Like a shot a peasant dived to the floor, grabbed the crust and devoured it. The same performance was repeated later with an orange peel. Even transport and G. P. U. officers warned me against traveling over the countryside at night because of the numbers of starving, desperate men. . . . A foreign expert who returned from Kazakstan told me that 1,000,000 of the 5,000,000 of inhabitants there have died of hunger...
Last week air transport companies announced that their pilots could drink no beer on duty, regardless of Congressional assumptions. The National Park Service was ready to allow beer sales only in Wet states. The Post Office Department ruled that brewers could start their advertising campaigns immediately, provided they did not give the impression of offering premature sales...