Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quiet enough to permit passengers to talk to one another in normal voices and to allow radio music to be heard, the new Condor will be put into service by Eastern Air Transport out of Newark to Miami this week. Eight others are under construction at Curtiss-Wright's St. Louis plant...
...Palmolive-Peet. After the merger Sidney Morse Colgate was chairman of the new company till his death in 1930, but the old family's influence passed into the background. S. Bayard, son of Sidney, though handicapped by ill health, ably captained Roy Chapman Andrews' motor transport on its first venture into the Gobi Desert. Since his father's death he has managed the family interest in Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Quiet, clear-headed Bayard Colgate, now only 34, has again obtained control-which the Colgate family has not had since 1928-will try to right his great-grandfather...
International Aircraft & Airways, founded in 1935 by an Englishman, a Russian and an American, had an ambitious idea behind it: world transport must govern the world. As the power of I. A. & A. grew, transcending governments, the idea became a fact, and for 50 years the world lived under an international pax aeronautica. Real and acknowledged world rulers of those days were the twelve Directors of I. A. & A. Armament was permitted only to the I. A. police. Popular government, individual liberty were anachronisms in this sternly centralized system. And though peace & prosperity were everywhere, here & there the old superstition...
...University's Chemistry Auditorium. It was the annual Originality Contest (sponsored by Professor Akerman) of the Twin City Boys' Air- plane Model Makers Club. There were designs ranging from a maple leaf type offered by Clarence Maihori, a Japanese, to a futuristic conception of 21st Century transport submitted by Robert Hillberg. Harold Hatlestad's rotor ship took first place...
Last week at Newark Airport the Department of Commerce gave to air transport a device on which it had been at work for five years, to overcome the blind landing hazard. It consists of 1) a runway localizing beacon and 2) a radio beam along which the plane may glide to a three-point landing...