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From interesting Santa Fe, N. Mex.,* scampered Charles Augustus Lindbergh last week,† with a new nubble in the crown of his fame. Henceforth he must be considered the U. S.'s first flying archeologist, for the week before he initiated in the neighborhood of Santa Fe the first formal attempts of U. S. archeologists to locate digging sites by aerial photographs...
...John Campbell Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution at Washington, who directs excavations in Mexico and the Southwest, had asked Col. Lindbergh to make the pictures at Pecos near Santa Fe. The request followed the flyer's telling the doctor with awe of a Mayan temple city he had accidentally seen last February while flying over Quintana Roo, jungle- covered Mexican territory. Two green eyes had seemed staring up at him from among the trees. He flew lower. The eyes became pools before a pyramid temple. Tumbled around were the ruins of a city approximately eight miles in diameter...
Western Air Express (Western Air, in connection with New York Central, Santa Fe and Chicago & Alton railroads has announced a 46-hour coast-to-coast air-rail service. It carried 13,102,715 pieces of mail and 7,880 passengers during the first six months of 1929. Chief mail route is Los Angeles to Salt Lake City [664 miles]. Chief passenger route is Los Angeles to Kansas City. Passengers ride in 12-passenger Fokkers. Net income, first quarter $ 320,000 Net income, entire year...
...William J. Glackens, George Luks, the late Arthur B. Davies), a group which spurred the militant Society of Independent Artists and encouraged U. S. painting as such. Within a few hours of Artist Henri's death, a Henri memorial association was formed at the artist colony of Santa Fe, N. Mex. Object: $2,000,000 to build in Manhattan a gallery such as Artist Henri had often dreamed of-devoted exclusively to U. S. painting...
Transcontinental Air Transport. Plane between Los Angeles and Clovis, N. Mex.. train (Santa Fe) between Clovis and Waynoka, Okla.; plane between Waynoka and Columbus, Ohio, train (Pennsylvania between Columbus and Atlantic Coast ports. Time, 48 hours; fare, $345. Last week a demonstration run was made. Regular service begins July...