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Operation of the route, from Atlanta to Los Angeles, will be started within 30 days. Until lighting of the airway is completed, transcontinental mail must be held overnight at Dallas. President Coburn last week gave no credence to a report that a merger involving Robertson Aircraft and S. A. F. E. might follow the awarding of the contract. But the rumor persisted...
Regarding NYRBA's finances. . . . Something more than $4,000,000 was poured into an operating airway, 8,903 miles in length, spanning the West Indies, extending down the East Coast of South America, then westward over the Andes to Chile and northward to the Bolivian border: the largest fleet of the largest flying boats in the world were built especially for this service and backed up by a squadron of 22 auxiliary flying ships; a careful organization was developed and scattered through 17 countries to carry the work of the air line forward; most of this...
...Irak has been promised complete independence in 1932, in the event of her scheduled admission to the League of Nations in that year. British interests will continue, under concessions, to develop Mosul's major oil fields to control dependent airports-a vital point in the British-India Airway...
Gary. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 69, of Brooklyn, may well have a medal named for him someday. A prolific inventor (gyrocompass, gyrostabilizer, airplane "Mecaviator," superpower searchlights, airway beacons), he holds over 400 patents, some 12 important awards and decorations. Last week, honoring his method of nondestructive detection of flaws in steel rails and bars, he was first to receive the American Iron & Steel Institute Medal, given by the Institute in memory of its late Founder-President Elbert Henry Gary...
...temporary, at the most alternative, for Canada. The Dominion is now working out a line from Montreal to Winnipeg by way of Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, and Allanwater. When that is instituted, and the proposed extension comes into being between Calgary and Victoria, Canada will have a continuous airway 3,000 miles long...