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...last week five states were without regular airmail or passenger service: West Virginia, Rhode Island, Delaware, New Hampshire and Vermont. Last week New Hampshire and Vermont were hoisted out of the groundling class by a curious procedure...
...Mayer's system of casting all its available celebrities in the same production has the advantage of giving unpretentious stories a tantalizing air of grandeur. Night Flight is an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's prize novel about the first night nights on a South American airmail route. Far from being an aviation "epic," it is really a study of an airmail port in operation at a crisis. The hero of the picture is not Jules Fabian (Clark Gable), whose plane is blown to sea by a cyclone, forced down by lack of fuel, but Riviere (John...
...first aeronautics chief to come out of the industry. But the most important phase of his career - vice president of Ludington Lines (hourly service between New York, Philadelphia & Washington) - was insurgent. Bitterly critical of extravagant operation and fat subsidies, he helped prove that an air line could profit without airmail contracts. First thing Director Vidal did after taking control last week was to reorganize the Branch from three divisions into two: Air Navigation and Air Regulation, headed respectively by Rex Martin and Major Cone. Other points in the Vidal program...
...second son; by Elizabeth Browning Donner Roosevelt, 21; in Minden, Nev. Elliott, who had established residence at Lake Tahoe, followed a pre-arranged program by filing suit first, charging "extreme mental cruelty" which caused him "great mental agony and suffering." Then from Philadelphia Elizabeth Roosevelt dispatched by airmail a cross-suit, under which the decree was granted her after a 15-min. hearing behind closed doors. Free, Elliott announced he would celebrate by "taking in the World's Fair," engaged passage on a Chicago plane. Meanwhile from Fort Worth to Chicago proceeded Ruth Googins, Weliesley graduate in whom Elliott...
...Ludington Air Lines (New York-Philadelphia-Washington), to Eastern Air Transport for $250.000, TIME said: "Ludington set a new low for fares, a new high for economy of operation," added that Ludington had performed a feat unusual for an air transport line by managing to profit without an airmail subsidy the first year of its operation (1930-31). TIME erred in reporting that Ludington's $1,000,000 capitalization had been fully subscribed by the Brothers Ludington...