Word: transporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until December 1917 was the Allied Maritime Transport Council set up, and it did not start functioning until March 1918. Subordinate to it were a score of committees on food, munitions, raw materials. But all these bodies were purely advisory, had no authority to enforce their decisions...
...months, 1,000,000 tons of badly needed fodder. Skeptics, figuring out that this would mean a daily delivery of 16,666 tons, doubted that the Russian railroads could handle such volume, believed it would take at least a ship a day leaving Black Sea or Baltic ports to transport the fodder. >From Dairen, Manchukuo, came a report, later broadcast from Berlin, that the Russians had agreed to transport 1,000,000 tons of Manchukuoan soybeans over the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Germany within the next few months. Soybeans are used to produce margarine, and oil cake used as cattle...
Five years ago Earl J. Jones, a drum-chested, muscular, aggressive man, turned up in Zanesville, Ohio.* Without much visible financial backing, he went into the coal-mining business, presently owned several mines, including one of the most modern, all-mechanical excavations in the U. S. To transport his coal along the Muskingum River he bought a barge company...
MEMPHIS, Tenn.--An Eastern Airlines pilot brought his big transport plane down safely in a freshly plowed field 20 miles east of here today while flames roared in the baggage compartment and smoke filled the cabin where seven passengers were. The passengers and a crew of three escaped uninjured...
...R.A.F. has all sorts of specialty craft-for submarine searches, advanced training, primary training, transport, dive bombing, freight. Some are junk; some are secret and superb...