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...there are no clouds to provide a background. The old one: the revolving beacon atop Hotel St. George in Brooklyn, erected three years ago by Sperry Gyroscope Co. to guide aviators and to advertise the hotel. Recently the Department of Commerce ruled that only beacons actually on an established airway might use white lights; all others must be red. The hotel placed a red screen over the lens of its searchlight, but the rays were so weakened that advertising value was nil. Last month the light was discontinued. Exceptions to the red-light rule: the Lindbergh Beacon atop Chicago...
Married. Amelia Earhart, 32, transatlantic flyer, vice president of New York, Philadelphia & Washington Airway Corp. (Ludington Line); and George Palmer Putnam, 43. vice president of Brewer & Warren, Manhattan publishers; in Noank, Conn., where last November they obtained a marriage license and amid mystery & confusion did not marry (TIME, Nov. 17). A stanch Lucy Stoner, Flyer Earhart will keep her own name...
...Angeles headquarters of his company-Transcontinental & Western Air Inc., of which he is chief radio engineer (TIME, July 14)-travel across the U. S., relayed through 20 ground stations to the line's New York office. His company's nation-wide network, largest operated by any single airway system in the U. S.,* was completed. More powerful stations at Columbus and Albuquerque can be used to speed messages "overhead," in stead of through all the intermediate points. Next step will be the installation of still stronger transmitters at New York and Los Angeles for direct transcontinental conversation...
...Largest airlines of today: miles of airway, Pan American Airways (21,190); miles flown daily, American Airways...
...this type of construction work, which amounted to roughly $6,300,000,000 in 1929, instead of decreasing will show a total of about $7,000,000,000 for 1930. . . . The Federal Government is engaged upon the greatest program of waterway, harbor, flood control, public building, highway, and airway improvement in all our history. This, together with loans to merchant shipbuilders, improvement of the Navy and in military aviation, and other construction work . . . will exceed $520,000,000 for this fiscal year. This compares with $253,000,000 in the fiscal year...