Word: icelander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...route from the U. S., the Michigan-Pan American Airways Greenland Expedition. Also last week Transamerican Airlines, which had begun tentative surveys of the northern air passage to Europe (TIME, April 25), surrendered to Pan American its active interest in the route, including an exclusive concession in Iceland. Apparent reason: Pan American is better geared by structure and experience for international enterprise, has working arrangements with the big transport lines of Europe...
While routes were being discussed, proponents of the North Atlantic route were heavily outnumbered, partly because those who had flown it were not all eager to do it again. Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau (North Sea-U. S. 1930, 1931) was enthusiastic over the Iceland-Greenland route, as was Navigator Gatty; but Capt Hermann Koehl (Ireland-Greeneley Island 1928) wanted no more of that part of the ocean. Neither did Jean Assolant (Maine-Spain...
...Boston to Halifax would this year be extended, if mail contracts are forthcoming, to turbulent St. Johns, Newfoundland. Cooperating with Transamerican Airlines Corp. (operating between Cleveland and Chicago), Pan American will push surveys and preliminary research this summer in a drive to span the Atlantic by way of Greenland, Iceland, the Faeroes and Shetland Islands to England and the Continent. Last summer Pilot Parker Cramer was drowned in the Atlantic as he was completing an experimental flight over this route...
Last fortnight Denmark refused Transamerican Airlines concessions for bases on its Eskimo colony, Greenland (TIME, April 18). That this implied a breakdown of the project was denied by company officials; negotiations would be continued, they said. But the Parliament of the Kingdom of Iceland (whose king is big King Christian X of Denmark) did not refuse to grant a 75-year franchise to Transamerican when Judge Gudmunder Crimson of Rugby, N. Dak., who in 1930 represented his State at the millennial of the founding of the Icelandic parliament, intervened. Judge Grimson went to Copenhagen to plead with the King...
...turned it over to the U. S. Consul at Amsterdam. The papers proved to be the pilot's license, passport and permit of Parker ("Shorty") Cramer who was lost with Radioman Louis Oliver Pacquette last fall while flying a transatlantic survey from Detroit to Europe, via Greenland and Iceland, for Transamerican Airlines Corp. (TIME, Aug. 17). 2) While the consul was scanning the papers, the Icelandic Althing (Parliament) passed a bill giving Transamerican Airlines the right to build a seaplane base and radio station at Reykjavik, and a concession to operate oceanic mail & passenger services for 75 years, exclusive...