Word: transporters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the State Department's approval, Secretary Wilbur of the Navy last week ordered 1.400 U. S. Marines to join their 1,415 companions already in Nicaragua. Instead of troopships. Secretary Wilbur assigned a minelayer, a submarine tender and three cruisers to transport the men; an oiler and an ammunition ship to carry their supplies...
...this point the Munson Steamship line offered to transport the mummies to Plymouth free of charge, if they didn't mind riding with a cargo of hemp. At the quay in Plymouth the United States Custom officers demanded itemized and minute descriptions of all the cargo. Here was another puzzle. The mummies had forgotten their names...
...flies to keep appointments, virtually commuting by air between his place on Long Island and his desk in Washington. The new ship, a Loening plane similar to those in which the Army "Good Will Fliers" circled South America early this year, he will use for personal flying practice; as transport on inspection trips to Army Air Corps posts...
...transport line in Europe is self-supporting, they are all subsidized by the government," were the words of Captain C. H. Biddlecomb, former operating director of the Colonial Air Transport Company, who will lecture in the Business School today and tomorrow...
Captain Biddlecomb continued by describing the peculiar system used in Germany, by which the individual municipalities rather than the central government tend to support the aerial transport routes through subsidies. "Germany," he said, "has also made rapid strides in the technical development of air craft, being forced by the limiting clauses of the Peace Treaty to obtain maximum efficiency with minimum horsepower...