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...carried 18,000,000 passengers, went 100,000,000 miles, used 19,000,000 gallons of gasoline. Lest patriots feel Greyhound benefits from free highway use, the corporation points out that it pays over $1,000,000 in taxes a year, that the gasoline tax alone would maintain two coast-to-coast highways. Four thousand workers, trained in special schools, are employed. The company carries insurance for each passenger. The safety record is held by the Pittsburgh division with 12,000,000 people carried in four years without a fatality. Between San Francisco and Los Angeles run Greyhound...
Smart from a business, useful from a scientific viewpoint are the publicity stunts of Capt. Frank Hawks, superintendent of aviation for Texas Co. Last June he set the coast-to-coast record in two swoops of his Lockheed Air Express. Last week he set out (with special permission from the Department of Commerce) to cross the continent in a cabin glider towed at the end of a 300-ft. rope behind a power plane. First day he was towed 400 mi., from San Diego to Tucson, with a stop at Yuma and Phoenix. At such way stations...
Officials of Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, Inc., coast-to-coast U. S. aviation system operating air schools and taxis in 40 cities, doubted that Luft Hansa could find much profit in its half-a-loaf policy. Curtiss-Wright rates, reckoned as low as any in the U. S., range from 30? to $1.60 per mile, depending upon the type of ship used. The return trip must be paid for at the same rate...
...these things considered, we thought it would be best to inaugurate a separate Pacific Coast edition." Western brokers viewed the plan with approval. Well known to them is the man selected to be the Journal's editor-H. C. Hendee, head of Dow, Jones's Pacific Coast financial ticker news service, once a newspaper reporter on the Detroit News with Mr. Hogate. The establishment of the Journal seemed a natural out- growth of the establishment last year of Dow, Jones's coast-to-coast direct wire, serving Pacific Coast brokerage houses with...
...Coast-to-Coast Orders...