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...York State Railways to consolidate its transport companies into a new subsidiary (TIME, Dec. 30). Last week the new vehicle was given a name-American Airways, Inc. It controls the operations of Universal Aviation Corp., Colonial Airways Corp., Southern Air Transport, Interstate Airlines, Inc., Cuban Flying Service and Alaskan Airways...
...Gift From Ten glossy-brown Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Alaskan sealskins Hoover, unofficially* 45 pieces of Sévres President Doumergue China of France, officially Diamond necklace with City of Paris sapphire clasp pendant and sapphire clasp Four blooded Lippizifner horses Government of Hungary
When Sir George Hubert Wilkins began his three-year long attempt to fly across the Arctic to Europe, Eielson, most experienced pilot of the region, became his pilot. Fairbanks, their base, has since become the base of most Alaskan flying. Point Barrow was their jumping point. In 1927 they made a westerly exploratory tour to north of Wrangel Island. Three times their plane came down on drifting ice. Eielson froze his fingers fixing the motor. At the third alighting they abandoned the plane. For 17 days they walked, jumped and crawled over the floes to Beechey Point, east of Point...
Senator William Edgar Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and a great Soviet protagonist, acted more directly. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney-General, now Washington attorney for The Aviation Corp. which owns Alaskan Airways, begged him to intercede. He cabled to Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs at Moscow. At once the Russians, eager to repeat their glory of rescuing the wrecked Italia crew, ordered out three planes stationed within flying distance of Eielson's disappearance. They also telegraphed and radioed Siberian outposts to send out sledge parties...
...Antarctica making occasional exploratory flights from Deception Island. Eielson was with him there last year, would have returned except that he had "to make some money." He said: "This exploring life is fascinating. But you can't live on glory when you get old." Managing Alaskan Airways was the opportunity he took...