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...Jurney with a red carnation in the buttonhole of his morning coat hastened out to do his duty. Two hours later he was back to report that he could not find Mr. MacCracken. He was ordered to keep on trying. Meanwhile the Senate called in the three airway officials who had been kept cooling their heals in a side room under guard of a paunchy Capitol policeman. All that day and all the next Mr. Jurney searched in vain, though Mr. MacCracken's whereabouts were anything but a secret. For several hours he was seated in the office...
...Chief of Airway...
...Blind-landing equipment for six-months' tests at several airports; improvement of all airway radio...
...level of assistant general manager. Also he made two fast friends in the company: Publicist Amelia Earhart and General Superintendent Paul ("Dog") Collins. In 1929 a merger shook him and Paul Collins out. But before that happened they had hatched the best idea of their careers-a short airway over a heavily traveled route with frequent schedules and low fares. They sold the idea to Philadelphia Socialites Nicholas and Townsend Ludington who backed them in Ludington Lines between New York, Philadelphia and Washington. Placed in charge of publicity was Amelia Earhart. Pinching pennies as no airline had ever dreamed...
...sake of economy (the Branch's budget was cut from $7,600,000 to $5,200,000) airway radio beacons will not be operated on clear days except on request. For several months airway beacon lights have been turned off between flight schedules, to save money. Henceforth they will burn through the night. Of the Branch's 60 planes for official use, 14 have been put in dead storage. Director Vidal travels not in the handsome Ford tri-motor NSt used by Col. Young, but in a small Stinson which he flies himself...