Word: airway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such slams at Air Bureau efficiency kept the atmosphere of the inquiry tense but quiet for four days, with only one consolation for the accused Federal agency: The committee exonerated the Government airway keeper at Kirksville, Mo., near the scene of the Cutting crash. On the fifth day, however, as the committee agreed to extend its inquiry, came testimony of a different sort which finally drew blood in the exasperated yowl from Assistant Director Martin...
...Penang roared 37 planes to scour Sir Charles's route. Through the steaming jungle all along the Malay coast natives ran forth with flares flickering in the dark. But as the days passed it became more & more likely that Sir Charles, who had safely pioneered almost every dangerous airway in the world, had finally tempted fate too far. Hope persisted that he might have landed on some tiny, uninhabited island, some lonely Burma beach. In California, Brother Richard Harold Kingsford Smith recalled that in 1929 Sir Charles was given up for dead when lost for twelve days...
Last week Pan American Airways forged steadily ahead with its transpacific airway program, assured by the Post Office Department that Congress would provide $1,800,000 for the first year of operation -$35,000 for each weekly round-trip between California and China. At Wake Island, one of the operating bases in the projected 8,000-mi. airway, a temporary radio station set up on the beach went officially on the air for the first time, contacting California, Honolulu, Midway Island...
...easily from the waters of San Francisco Bay. headed out through the Golden Gate under a brilliant mid-afternoon sun. The world's first transport plane designed specifically for transocean service was finally on its way over the Pacific to Hawaii on the first stage of Pan American Airways' projected 8,000-mi. ocean airway to China. Four years of intensive work had prepared this ship and this crew for this flight...
...make experimental flights over the other stages of the far-flung air-way-to Midway and Wake Islands, Guam, Manila and China. When the pioneer work is done-possibly by late sum-mer-Glenn Martin's huge Clipper No. 7 will inaugurate regular scheduled commercial service over the airway, first with mail only, eventually with passengers...