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...flier released yesterday, the nation wide express service, which is preparing for an exodus of over to pillion and a quarter college men and women this month, suggested goal business methods would eliminate all cares...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Railway Express Advises Business-like Shipping | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

Married. George Palmer Putnam, 51, publicity-loving publisher; and Mrs. Jean-Marie Consigny James; in Boulder City, Nev. Publisher Putnam's second wife, famed Flier Amelia Earhart, vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. His first wife divorced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. George Anthony Reginald Williams, 43, the former Lady (Sophie) Mary Heath, famed flier (first woman commercial pilot, first woman to loop the loop, first woman to fly solo London-Cape-town) ; of a broken head after a fall down the steps of a double-deck bus; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Died. Daniel S. Roosevelt, 21, nephew of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Bronson Harriman Rumsey, 22, son of the late Sculptor Charles Gary Rumsey* and the late Mary Harriman Rumsey,† in a plane crash; near Guadalupe Victoria, Puebla. Mexico. Belittling storm warnings, Flier Roosevelt, on vacation from Harvard, took off from a Mexico City airport with a girl companion, Carlotta Constantine, and Schoolfellow Rumsey, headed for Veracruz, ran into a storm, crashed in a forced landing. Catapulted clear of the wreckage, Carlotta Constantine was taken to a Mexico City hospital with fractures of left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

George Palmer Putnam, husband of the late Flier Amelia Earhart and publisher of a book called The Man Who Killed Hitler: 1) told the press he had received no less than three letters threatening him with death and worse if he did not withdraw the book from circulation; 2) got published in Liberty another serial about his wife's disappearance; 3) learned that Mother-in-Law Amy Otis Earhart, 61, was getting ready to move from Boston, Mass, to Berkeley, Calif, so she could be near the spot (Oakland) where her daughter took off on her last flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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