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...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...
...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...
...went on, "that your prohibition laws are evil, and yet they seem to stay right with you through all the smoke and pseudo-virulent flame of attack. We have something in common with you with our laws about liquor; Iceland and the United States are the only two countries in the world that have prohibition, and the majority of our people are opposed to it, just as yours are. Despite the apparent helplessness of America and the foolishness of self-imposition of thousands of useless and liberty-destroying laws, I do not at all feel that it is a decadent...
...Bernard turned out a misfit. He took his Lenina to the feelies and to color organ concerts, danced with her to "Bottle songs" ("Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted . . ."), but he objected to sharing her with others. For that he was banished to Iceland. "Mr. Savage" was b --n on an Indian reservation of a real m ----r, and he too fell in love...
Professor Sigurthur Nordal of the University of Iceland, will start his second series of lectures on February...