Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Airways. As everyone expected, Pan American Airways, the sole bidder, last week was awarded the airmail contract from Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana to Santos, Brazil-3,275 mi. The rate: $2 per mi. for 800 Ib. of mail; $1 a pound per 1,000 mi. for excess load...
...Queen Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria last week personally read her Speech-from-the-Throne at the opening of the Netherlands Parliament. Not only Queen Wilhelmina, but indomitable Queen Mother Emma, portly Prince Henry (Wilhelmina's spouse) and plump Princess Juliana, heiress to the throne, were there, almost 700 Ib. of Royal Dutch...
...been watering in anticipation of "100% of the maximum rate" for which they had bid. While the Watres bill authorizes payment up to $1.25 per mi. flown by the contractor, the Postmaster General established a scale of 75¢ per mi. for mail space of 47 cu. ft. (about 400 Ib. of mail) and 40¢ for space of 25 cu. ft. (about 225 Ib. of mail). Aviation Corp expected Postmaster General Brown to contract for the larger load. Instead, he took only the 40¢ space to start with...
...plane, which carries a crew of three (pilot, photographer, radioman) is capable of 150 m. p. h. with normal load of 2,443 Ib.?faster than any U. S. military planes except small pursuit craft. Machine guns are mounted fore & aft. It is primarily designed for long-range reconnaissance and photographic work. But at the Fokker plant in Teterboro, N. J. a plane nearly identical was being completed with the utmost secrecy. Reporter Bruce Gould of the New York Evening Post, who inadvertently happened upon it while on another mission, reported it to be "[a] pursuit-bomber . . . long nosed...
Born. A son, heir apparent to the Belgian throne; to the Crown Princess Astrid Sophie Louise Thrya, niece of King Gustaf V of Sweden; and Crown Prince Leopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel, Due de Brabant. Weight: 8 Ib. 11 oz. Name: Baudouin* Albert Axel Marie Gustave...