Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldiers of unpredictable Italy (though Italian armies drew back from the frontiers). French Morocco and Algeria, granaries as well as a source of French manpower (total population of France's African Empire: 41,000,000), were valuable to France in proportion as the Mediterranean remained free to transport. Along the Mediterranean's northern shore the line-up was still more confused. French naval bases at Toulon and Villefranche, guarding French communications with Africa, threatening Italian coastal cities; Italy, with her 105 submarines, Europe's biggest fleet; the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, long wanted by Germany, source of friction...
Decision. All that Friday afternoon Commons had been sitting, pondering 16 emergency measures, including war credits of $2,500,000,000, extending conscription to men from 18 to 41, giving the Government control over trade with the enemy. Same day the Ministry of Transport took over the nation's railroads. At 6 p. m. the Prime Minister began to speak. This time he had something...
...Arnold Bernstein's big contribution to the shipping business was installation of modern elevators in his freight ships so that automobiles could be driven on and off. He pared the cost until the Bernstein Line did 65 % of U. S.-Europe automobile transport. When he was jailed, Studebaker and Ford companies cabled Germany urging his release to provide continuance of vigorous trade for the Reich...
Generally the grammar is pretty good, but, in the issue of TIME, July 24, under Transport, occurs this sentence: "[Mrs. Clara Adams] . . . broadcasted over a Honolulu-San Francisco radio hook...
...smart young men who prowled around among the aviation industry's crack-ups in 1932, looking for a wreck to repair and fly, was Harvardman Robert Ellsworth Gross. After a venture in 1928 with Stearman Aircraft Corp. (which he sold to United Aircraft and Transport Corp. within a year after he bought it) and another with Viking Aircraft, which had a not-so-happy ending in the 1929 crash, he had plenty of ambition but little money in his pocket when he learned that Lockheed was for sale...