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...commonly predicted, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown last week awarded the central transcontinental airmail contract (TIME, Sept. 8) to Transcontinental Air Transport and Western Air Express, joint bidders. Promptly the bidders organized a new operating company, Transcontinental & Western Air Inc. Most of the stock will be owned equally by T. A. T. and Western Air Express, the balance by Pittsburgh Aviation Industries. Officers: chairman, Clement Melville Keys (chairman, T. A. T.); president, Harris M. Hanshue (president, Western Air Express...
...airmail letter-recently received at the observatory from Professor Leuschner of the University of California transmitted observations made of the new planet Pluto at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Wisconsin, indicating that the ninth planet, discovered last March, is following the course predicted...
...which recently acquired Stout Air Lines (its sister subsidiary in United Aircraft & Transport), immediately placed in service a new fleet of Fords, with streamlining and engine-cowling that boost the cruising speed to 125 m. p. h. Aviation Corp. meanwhile turned attention to the new southern transcontinental airmail route which (if Avco accepts the contract) it will begin to operate Oct. 15. Not improbably Avco will seek to extend its control all the way to the Pacific by buying from Western Air Express its El Paso-Los Angeles division (formerly Standard Air Line...
...American Airways. As everyone expected, Pan American Airways, the sole bidder, last week was awarded the airmail contract from Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana to Santos, Brazil-3,275 mi. The rate: $2 per mi. for 800 Ib. of mail; $1 a pound per 1,000 mi. for excess load...
...heels of Avco's semi-annual statement came announcement by Post- master General Walter Folger Brown that the contract for the new southern transcontinental airmail route was awarded to the sole bidder?Aviation Corp. (through its subsidiary, Robertson Aircraft Corp.) bidding jointly with Southwest Air Fast Express (TIME, Sept...