Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army Chief of Staff, when in 1931 he assumed the presidency of The Citadel, South Carolina's military college at Charleston. General Summerall's order was at once amplified by The Citadel's Commandant, Lieut. Colonel John Walton Lang, who announced that no cadet might "carry, transport, move, hold, possess, own, have . . . receive, accept, give, offer, sell, buy, or drink" any intoxicating liquors...
Officials of United Aircraft & Transport Corp. tried hard to conceal their excitement over an airplane being crated for shipment from East Hartford, Conn, last week. There was nothing extraordinary about the plane. It was a Vought Corsair of a year-old model, such as the U. S. Navy uses for observation, with interchangeable sea and land undercarriages. But its wings and fuselage bore the red-white-&-blue bull's eye insignia of the British Royal Air Force-hence the excitement. The British Air Ministry had bought the ship, presumably to test it as a sample of U. S. fighting...
Cinemagoers who saw Air Mail recall the furtive pilot who early in his career, had 'chuted from a floundering transport, leaving his passengers to die. At Long Beach, Calif, last week the reverse of that incredible episode was enacted. Lieut. Parker Abbott, U.S.N.R., nearly lost his own life while trying to make his terrified passenger jump from a spinning Navy plane. The passenger, another reservist named Floyd Vivian Schultz, sat motionless, paralyzed by fear. Lieut. Abbott tried in vain to push him out, finally had to jump, leave Schultz to crash with the plane...
Oldtime airmen can recall no factual basis for the episode referred to in Air Mail, an episode which air transport men regard as libelous. Nearest historical approach to the legend is the case of the late "Al" Wilson, Hollywood stunt pilot, who jumped from a spinning Sikorsky bomber, leaving in the ship a man who was manipulating smokepots for a cinema shot. The passenger also wore a 'chute but made no apparent move to jump. The Professional Pilots' Association investigated, concluded that Pilot Wilson had jumped without warning, drummed him out of its ranks. Last September...
...Most transport planes on U. S. airlines accommodate twelve passengers. In the past year such planes flew each trip with an average of seven seats empty, according to figures published last week by the Department of Commerce. The Department's analysis was begun October 1931, showed an average of 39% seat-occupancy for that month. The average dipped to 28% for the bad-weather month of December, climbed steadily to a 53% peak last August, dropped to 43% in October. Average for 13 months...