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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regarding your article under Transport in the March 20 issue of TIME in which you give Pan American's new air fares San Francisco to Honolulu and San Francisco to Hong Kong, you say "comparative boat fares $215, $425." The minimum first class fares on the Matson Line from San Francisco to Honolulu on the Lurline, Mariposa, and Monterey (in a twin-bedded, inside, double room with private toilet) is $125. Matsonia fares are the same but minimum accommodations have no private toilet...
...TIME'S $215 figure should have read $125. Matson Line minimum one-way fare to Honolulu: $125; Canadian Pacific (out of Vancouver): $115 on small boats, $125 on Empress of Japan; American President Line...
...possess poverty, an old car, and a genial disposition to bask and wait for someone to feed them. Well-stocked with indigents of her own, California has tried unsuccessfully to discourage unwanted guests with hostile police, stingy charitarians, hard-work camps, even jail or embargoes at the State line...
...stood before a luncheon gathering of aviation's bigwigs one day last week at Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania. Subdued and solemn, he accepted for Braniff Airways, Inc. the National Safety Council's 1938 award for middle-sized U. S. airlines. For seven years the line had operated without a passenger fatality. But well did sad Tom Braniff and all at the luncheon know that a few days before the award's presentation (but some weeks after it had been voted) one of his Chicago-Dallas airliners had cracked up just off Oklahoma City's airport...
...Braniff crash, the crack-up of a Northwest Airlines Lockheed near Miles City, Mont. Jan. 13 was due to mechanical failure. Last week CAA announced its apparent cause: a fire, originating in a floorboard compartment in the pilot's cabin through which passes the cross-feed emergency gasoline line between the two engines...