Word: airmailing
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...proud. But they would be first to insist that all credit go to two young men who sold them the plan and then made it work: brawny, handsome Gene Vidal, West Point halfback of 1916-20, onetime Army flyer: and squint-eyed, leathery Paul ("Dog") Collins, War pilot, oldtime airmail pilot...
...Mayflower Hotel last week stormed an exceedingly irate Dutchman-Anthony Herman Gerhard ("Tony") Fokker. He shouted threats at the Department, at Assistant Secretary Clarence Marshall Young for the "hasty" "hostile" and "prejudiced" action of suspending Fokker planes from U. S. passenger service (TIME, May 11), hinted that certain airmail operators might cancel their contracts with the Government, out of sympathy for his cause. He issued angry statements to the Press at 4 a. m. and repudiated them at 4:30 a. m. He thrust his head inside the door where Department officials were meeting and announced "I'll give...
...transcontinental airmail and passenger line is costly, as T. A. T. and Western Air Express have learned. Moreover, operation of the transcontinental & western route has not proved profitable because it is not yet flown by night, hence does not receive a large share of transcontinental mail. For that reason, but principally because of the general difficulties that have beset most airlines, Western Air Express has run somewhat short of funds. Last week it raised between $750,000 and $1,000,000 by selling 50,000 shares of its stock to General Aviation Corp., aviation subsidiary of General Motors Corp...
...there as guests of the Transcontinental and Western Air Company. On the return trip, which took six days, they were marooned two days at Cleveland, and one day at Indianapolis. The route taken after arriving at Cleveland, was the same as that used by the Chicago-New York airmail lines...
...cairn Aircraft Co. at Willow Grove, Pa., and in 1925 went to Spain to discuss the autogiro with de la Cierva. In 1928 he brought the first autogiro to the U. S. and with part of the fortune which he realized from sale of his profitable New York-Atlanta airmail route to the Curtiss-Keys group, he purchased the right to develop the autogiro in. this country. Thereafter he and the inventor worked silently and exceedingly hard-and practically solely with Pitcairn money-to bring the autogiro to a point of commercial feasibility. They formed Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro...