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There is still no way to get from California to China on a scheduled airline, but after three years of exploration and exploitation, Pan American Airways promises there will be April 21 when regular service is started on its 690-1111. hop from Manila to Hongkong. Meantime, last week the ship that is going to make this run was 9,000 mi. away in the Antipodes making the first test flight over Pan American's second great transpacific venture, the 7,000 mi. airway from California to New Zealand...
...mass analysis, which was invented chiefly by Bjerknes, father and son, in Norway, in 1918, has received considerable attention in the U. S., both within and without the Weather Bureau since that time. It was used in forecasting for a model airway in California a decade ago by the U. S. Weather Bureau and Guggenheim Foundation, and has been employed a dozen years by the U. S. Navy. Thus although this method of forecasting has only recently been brought largely to the public notice, it was well known to meteorologists and used in this country long before 1932, the year...
...Department of Commerce, handsome Director Eugene Luther Vidal at once became the butt of incessant attacks. When the Bureau investigated crashes, he was accused of whitewashing his subordinates. When he devoted time to developing a "$700 plane" for private flyers, airlines screamed that he was neglecting them. When Bureau airway aids became outdated because the Government cut Bureau funds 40%, Gene Vidal got the blame. When Senator Bronson Cutting was killed in a crash. Senator Copeland's investigating committee recommended Gene Vidal's resignation, commented: "He is an amiable gentleman. He has a good background. Our fear...
...cancellation. Complying with changed requirements, it extended its lines to Detroit, sought a new contract, but was underbid by a brand-new concern named Central Airlines which began flying the same route. Pennsylvania then reorganized as Pennsylvania Airlines & Transport Co. and acquired Kohler Aviation Corp., which had pioneered the airway from Detroit to Milwaukee...
...assistant in the Works Progress Administration's $120,000,000 airport and airway development program, Mrs. Omlie hired a corps of famed female flyers,* sent them out to get local sponsors to suggest air markers, share their expense. So far, Mrs. Omlie's aides have spent $340,000. Expenditure of some $780,000 more has been authorized. Says Mrs. Omlie: "This is the first time that the Government has spent money in helping the private airplane owner...