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...lyres, began a new canto of the railroad epic. They turned to the West and the great Western railroads. In San Francisco last week sat Charles D. Mahaffie, Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Before him came Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern, Paul Shoup, President of the Southern Pacific, Arthur Curtiss James, Western Pacific Board Chairman, Harry M. Adams, Western Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these persons came before Commissioner Mahaffie either to support or to denounce the building of 200 miles of railroad tracks in Oregon and California. Location and not length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Battle in the West | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...15?Dedication of Curtiss-Steinberg Airport at St. Louis; of Kinsolving Airport at Abilene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Dedication of Curtiss-Steinberg Airport at St. Louis; of Kinsolving Airport at Abilene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Engaged. Hunt Wentworth, assistant to the president of Curtiss Flying Service, grandson of Chicago's twotime (1857-1860) Mayor John ("Long John") Wentworth ; and Miss Eileen Smith; at Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Tour of 1929 at Detroit, reached their Detroit goal in a heavy rain last week. Winner of the Edsel Ford Trophy and $2,500 cash was swarthy John Henry Livingston, 31, of Aurora, III, who flew a Wright-motored Waco biplane. Runner-up planes were (in order) : Waco, Ford, Curtiss Condor, Bellanca, Bellanca, Command-Aire, Kreider-Reisner, Spartan, Ford. Although losers yammered about the method of scoring, the Tour did disclose the characteristics of the planes in quick takeoffs, slow landings, load-carrying and other factors useful to commercial aviation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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