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Meantime, Pan-American was busy. It opened its air-rail from U. S. points, by way of Miami, to Latin-American countries. It cut its airmail rates from the U. S. to the South American west coast, and therefrom across the Andes to the Argentine. From cheaper rates, it expected more business. For goodwill, it arranged to carry a load of U. S. doctors to inspect northern South American districts when the Pan-American Medical Association meets in Panama City the end of this month. It ordered from Designer-Manufacturer Igor Sikorsky two of the largest amphibians yet made. These...
...Chagrin Falls. Out from the mountainous, forested pit of Bellefonte, Pa., Gethsemane of eastern airmail pilots, flew National Air Transport's Thomas P. Nelson last week. As he headed west for Cleveland thick snow flurries hid him from the ground. At snow-blown Cleveland Pilot Nelson was late, by minutes, hours, days. Col. Lindbergh, onetime flying companion of the missing man, flew his own machine over the treacherous Alleghenies to join 25 other planes in a systematic search of northern Ohio. Presumption was that Nelson was forced down by ice forming on the wings of his plane. Wing...
Doing the thing in a big way, Nebraskans sent to President Hoover an airmail letter 3 ft. x 2 ft. inviting him to Nebraska's Diamond Jubilee celebration. The President sent regrets, but tens of thousands of other citizens from nearly every State, from Canada, from Alaska, last week journeyed to Omaha to attend Nebraska's three-day 75th birthday party...
...passengers was making east of Albuquerque, N. Mex. last week. The pilots, Vernon Lucas and F. N. Erickson, dropped flares, landed comfortably in six inches of snow and by radio kept telling Albuquerque that they were safe. Their caution exemplified the policy of T. A. T., whose transcontinental airmail service has been running surely and safely since its bad wreck two months...
...Hermann Pattburg of your Aeronautics "Black Airmail" (TIME, Sept. 23) a Jack London fan that he should have used the same methods as J. L.'s hero of "Winged Blackmail...