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Died. Paul Henderson, 67, Kansas-born non-flying "father of airmail service," who, as second Assistant Postmaster General (1922-25), organized the first coast-to-coast airmail run, pioneered in the development of light signals to make night flying possible, retired to work as an official of National Air Transport, Inc.; of a stroke; in Washington...
...month, in two Manhattan theaters, MOT revived seven of its 205 film essays, billed as "The MARCH OF TIME'S History in the Making Series." Last week, encouraged by the box-office returns in Manhattan, MOT decided to reissue its whole stock of 205 films in eleven other coast-to-coast cities, planned to include more cities as prints became available. Sample sights in store: Republican Presidential Nominee Alf Landon out to overthrow Roosevelt's New Deal; the rise of Adolf Hitler; Father Coughlin and Huey Long on the stump; the Midwest's bleak Dust...
...United Air Lines, following a CAB suggestion, asked permission to cut its coast-to-coast coach fares from $110 to $99 eastbound and $88 westbound, with a $167 round-trip fare (v. $300 first class). It also asked for a new $24 coach rate between Chicago and New York. United's proposal, lowest transcontinental rate ever offered by a scheduled airline, came at the same time as National Airlines' request to cut its coach fare between New York and Miami from $53 to $43. T.W.A. also asked to cut fares...
...First coast-to-coast TV broadcast, inaugurated early in September, featured...
...shortest distance from Russia to America's industrial heart lies across the North Pole and down through the expanse of Canada. Last week, to help guard this vital approach, four more zones of a coast-to-coast air-defense system went into operation along the Canadian-U.S. border...