Word: airmailing
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...coasts lie between 70° and 80° West Longitude. Down part of that geographical corridor started Colonel Lindbergh last week-from New York to Miami to Havana, thence across the Caribbean to British Honduras, thence through Central American countries to the Canal Zone- carrying the first trans-Caribbean airmail. The day he left Miami, Feb. 4, was his 2/th birthday...
From Panama it will be easy to extend airmail and passenger service into South America. Pan-American Airways, Inc., for whom Col. Lindbergh flew, announced that it intends soon to extend its routes to Guayaquil, Lima, Antofagasta, Valparaiso and across the Andes to Buenos Aires. Airmail flown thus from Manhattan to Buenos Aires can arrive in five days. By ship down the Atlantic, Manhattan-Buenos Aires mail now takes 14 to 17 days...
...Transport Inc. of eight new Curtiss Falcon biplanes, the installation by the government of a lighted airway between Salt Lake City and San Francisco made possible in the near future a coast to coast 24-hour air mail service. Last week also saw the inauguration of a direct international airmail line, linking New York, Montreal and Mexico City...
...planes are Ford all-metal monoplanes, with enclosed cabins seating 12 passengers, plus hand baggage; equipped with three Pratt-Whitney Wasp motors, top speed of 140 m.p.h., cruising speed of 115 m.p.h. The pilots are veterans of the airmail. Safety, comfort, speed are the T. A. T. keynotes...
...Paul Henderson, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce came and told the President that airmail rates should be lowered, that a Caribbean airmail network was being surveyed. Before starting Caribbeanwards, President Coolidge found time to write Congress a note suggesting that $475,000 be added to the Department of Commerce appropriations for lighting U. S. airways, improving radio signal facilities...