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...Bucharest despatch, unconfirmed, stated laconically: "Trotzky was assassinated at Kishinev while on his way to the Crimea...
What does it cost to operate an airline? English and French companies generally guard this secret. But the Franco-Rumanian Air Transport Company, which carries passengers, freight and mail from Paris to Bucharest across Central Europe, gave figures. It spent 17,000,000 francs in 1923, or about $850,000, flying 10,090 hr. and 800,000 mi.-something over a dollar a mile. How was the dollar spent? Twenty-five cents for depreciation, 25c. for upkeep of plane and motor, 12c. for fuel and oil, 3c. for automobile transportation, 20c. for pay of pilots and other personnel...
Emile Daeschner is 61 years of age and was born in Alsace. His diplomatic experience has earned for him the epithet of "best trained diplomat in the French service." He has held posts in the Embassies at London and Madrid and was Minister to Lisbon and Bucharest. In the Quai d'Orsay he has served under such eminent statesmen as Premiers Rouveer and Poincaré and the famed League of Nations champion, Senator Leon Bourgeois...
...neither one nor the other of these plans did they succeed and, after being made to feel by both France and Britain that they had outstayed their welcome, they were forced to return empty-handed to Bucharest. The Bratiano brothers stuck another feather in their caps by having the Mineral Rights Bill passed by both Houses of Parliament...
Cranking up, minus pontoons, at Karachi, India, the U. S. round-the-world trio took the air for Atlantic shores. Constantinople, Bucharest, Vienna, Strasbourg flashed by beneath them. On the seventh day they landed at Paris. Chagrined at being too poor to afford her own circummundane expedition, France none the less accorded the Americans an effusive reception-squadronal escorts of planes from Strasbourg on, cheering crowds on the Champs Elysées, cordial officials at Le Bourget airdrome...