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Pennroad to control T. A. T.? In spite of denials by "higher-ups," last week's report was that the Pennroad Corp. has bought control of T. A. T.-Maddux Air Lines. Pennroad Corp. is a holding company of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Pennsylvania Railroad cooperates with T. A. T.-Maddux in the U. S.'s most famed air-rail system. The elevation of Daniel Schaeffer, Pennsy vice-president in charge of traffic, from director to chairman of the executive committee of T. A. T.-Maddux, the election of J. L. Maddux to the company's presidency...
...world's worst air crash happened last fortnight-16 people killed in a T. A. T. Maddux trimotored Ford. As a result, the Department of Commerce made a new flying rule. No transport plane may fly lower than 500 ft. If trouble forces him that low, the pilot must seek a landing place at once...
...Colonel & Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh dined at San Diego last week with the J. L. Madduxes, their week-end hosts, a trimotored Ford of the T9. A. T.-Maddux Line (both men are company officials), which earlier in the evening they had heard flying North towards Los Angeles, crashed 35 miles away. Of "worst" crashes (TIME. July 1) this was worst-3 killed by explosion, 13 incinerated...
...last week an augmented train plane schedule linking Manhattan with San Francisco. Transcontinental passengers now transfer at Los Angeles (Glendale Terminal Airport) and for $10 extra reach San Francisco about three hours later. Present (reduced) net charges for transcontinental air rail travel (New York to Los Angeles, over the Maddux Line which recently merged with T. A. T.) are: T. A. T., $267.43; Western Air Express, $211.20; Universal Air Lines System...
...license by the San Diego Air Control Board. His home-made monoplane had also been pronounced unfit to fly. Yet last week he took it into the air with four passengers, nose-dived 300 feet to earth while trying to avoid a midair crash with a big Maddux plane. Mr. Bird and his four passengers were killed instantly. The home-made monoplane was a twisted wreck in a field near Oldtown, Calif...