Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this week Loyalist resistance in northern Catalonia collapsed, and in a swift advance northward from Gerona the Rebel Armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco occupied Figueras, for eleven days the fourth capital of Loyalist Spain. As last as their transport could keep up with them, they bore down on the frontier towns of Port-Bou, La Junquera and Puigcerda. It was only a matter of hours before the Generalissimo would wipe out the only remaining Loyalist territory in northern Spain and be master of the Spanish side of the French-Spanish frontier from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean...
...city. Today there is only one. The broad Central Parkway was built atop the subway (at a cost of $3,330,990), and Cincinnatians in cars and busses now zip into the Basin in the morning, zip out at night about as fast as any other form of transport could carry them...
...take some of the load off the pilot, Curtiss-Wright Corporation last week announced a new wrinkle, to be used in its big CW20 transport under construction in its St. Louis factory. When the CW20 pilot is ready to land, he will throw a switch marked "land." A series of bulbs on the instrument board will light, and as he gets his landing gear down, lowers his flaps, cranks back his stabilizer, et al., the lights will go out, one by one. By other switches, he can check his operations for takeoff, or for any other operations. When the instrument...
Last week Mr. Charles Harding Babb of Glendale, Calif., who is the world's busiest jobber in new and used sport, military and transport planes, decided to go into the heavy freight plane production business. That nobody ever had done so before was no deterrent to Charlie Babb...
...Through a hatch in the nose 4,000-lb. tractors or standard army dump trucks may be driven right aboard. Depending on the fuel requirements, the Babb Special's payload capacity is reckoned at from 8,000 to 10,000 Ibs., more than a Douglas DC-3 passenger transport. But a DC-3 costs $114,000. The Babb Special, which will be built in Babb's own plant, is to sell for from...