Word: airmail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early this week, two western kidnapping cases came to happy endings. Found in the desert near Tucson, Ariz, three weeks after she had been snatched was June Robles, 6, granddaughter of a Tucson cattleman. No ransom was paid, no snatcher caught. From Chicago officials had received a special delivery airmail letter directing them to a spot g-2 mi. from Tucson. They found June Robles lying in a shallow hole, chained by her ankles, covered with tin, burlap and cactus. Beside her lay a jug of water, a loaf of fairly fresh bread and some wilted oranges and vegetables...
Startling error of omission in your airmail map (TIME, April 23, p. 24) is "the "Before Cancellation and After" route of American Airways from Buffalo, across Canadian soil, through Detroit and into Chicago. Cartographer and reporter both failed to delineate accurately any but the Newark-Buffalo portion of Mr. Cord's Newark-Chicago ''Valley Route." . . . The route is too important to omit. With its inauguration May 3, 1933, Mr. Cord's American Airways became the first transportation company to put geographically off-line Detroit on a direct New York-Chicago trunk line. How important this...
...addition to the contracts already awarded, Mr. Farley last week asked for bids on ten new routes, as well as on two of those rejected, to be opened late this month. Thus the new airmail map, as he contemplates it, will embrace some 28,500 mi., which is 3,300 mi. more than was routed before cancellation. Because of curtailed schedules, however, there will actually be 19,000 fewer miles flown daily under the new system than under...
...commercial aircraft, including the famed three-mile-a-minute Boeing 247, likely candidate for this year's Collier Trophy. Hugely successful, his paper profits of $51,000,000 from an original investment of $487,119 made headlines last March when exposed by the Senate committee investigating ocean and airmail contracts...
...idea originated with American Telephone & Telegraph Co. which had spent $2,800,000 on a telephoto system, only to abandon it last summer for lack of patronage. Prime reason: pictures were rarely good or important enough to warrant the expense of telephoto transmission instead of fast delivery by airmail. Secondary reasons: there were transmitting stations in only eight cities. It took an hour to prepare a picture for transmission, and the results usually were fuzzy...