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...Passed (16340-146) a bill by Ohio's Grosser authorizing the Postmaster General to negotiate with dirigible builders on a transoceanic mail service by airship, sent it to the Senate...
...Camp Kearny, Calif, unless the Press would pay him (TIME, May 23). But in Tulsa, Okla. last week Sailor Cowart could not resist spinning a yarn for the home folks. He described how he and two mates of the ground crew were jerked high into the air when the airship broke her moorings...
...news despatches en route. North American Newspaper Alliance's Berlin agent arranged with a passenger, Robert Reiner, Manhattan businessman, for descriptions of the flight which he would send as private radiograms to friends in the U. S., although all passengers were required to sign an agreement with the airship operators that they would not give out reports during the flight or for eight days after the landing. Passenger Reiner sent ten messages to N.A. N. A. When he sued for payment at $500 per message the news agency offered in defense that Passenger Reiner had broken his promise...
Airplane men have their Caterpillar Club. Airship men who have dangled on ropes might call themselves Spiders. After two hours the lump at the end of the Akron's cable began to rise slowly spider-wise, toward a port in the forward part of the lifeless, floating ship. As the cable shortened Sailor Cowart's oscillations grew more violent. When he disappeared into the port, the crowd murmured with relief but no one cheered...
...moves unendingly across the North Atlantic. Though it has occasionally sallied forth offering to carry a share of the load, aviation has thus far failed. But last week new carrying credentials were being written for the young giant when the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee reported favorably the Grosser Airship Bill authorizing the Postmaster General to let transoceanic mail contracts, and the Senate's Committee reported the McNary Bill to promote dirigible airlines...