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Last week, on the first leg of a transcontinental "economy tour" Mr. Cummins drove from Manhattan to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. to attend the annual meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Distance: 496 mi. Fuel cost: 74?, plus 38? tax. Mileage: 40.2 mi. per gal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Diesel into Auburn | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

...away. Capt. Edwin C. Musick fumigated the cabin from tip to tail to prevent any mosquitoes being taken along. Midway has never had any, does not want any. The plane was loaded with enough fuel to fly to Midway and back nonstop. Also loaded were 5 gal. of ice cream and several cinemas for the Midway colonists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Midway | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...Negro fieldhand, making tracks across country one Saturday night to see his gal, is shot by a whimsical sheriff because he objects to being run in for vagrancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cheap South | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...prize offered by Manhattan Hotelman Raymond Orteig, a young (25) onetime mail pilot left Roosevelt Field in a Ryan monoplane at 7:52 a. m., May 20, 1927 to fly nonstop to Paris. He carried 425 gal. of fuel, four sandwiches, two canteens of water, army emergency rations. Sitting on a gasoline tank, seeing through a periscope, Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis to Le Bourget Field in 33½ hr., landed to receive such acclaim as had been given no private citizen before or since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Booty | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

Plymacoupe seats two side-by-side, cruises 100 m.p.h., has a topspeed of 120 m.p.h., lands at 42. Its engine is geared 2-to-1, uses 4 gal. of fuel per hour. It has a standard Plymouth instrument board adapted for airplane use. Following successful test-flights last week, the Department of Commerce promptly ordered a Plymacoupe through Chrysler Motors' Amplex Division, planned more tests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Plymacoupe | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

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