Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entered the War. The boy became test pilot and instructor. The U. S. started an Air Mail Service. The boy entered and flew between New York and Chicago. Night flights were started between Chicago and New York...
...miles out of his course crossing Ohio. Near Montpelier there grew a tree. How, why, one cannot say, a committee of the Service is investigating, but the tree was invisible to him. Night echoed a rending crash, flames leapt out of the wreckage. Pilot Art Smith of the Air Mail was no more, the second to die on duty since the overnight service started last July...
Died. Arthur Smith, 32, night pilot for the U. S. Air Mail Service; killed in line of duty near Montpelier, Ohio, (see p. 35 AERONAUTICS...
...contracted to whisk letters and packages from Cleveland and Chicago to his home city, Detroit, and vice versa. His first plane, though he was not in it, was met at Cleveland by a fleet of Army pursuit planes. Unloading, loading, it soon sped back with Detroit's first air mail. There the citizens again gave thanks for their genius loci, Mr. Henry Ford. The New York-San Francisco air mail was started 1924; New York-Chicago service started July 1, 1925. Detroit was not made a stopping place on either service. Neither were Pittsburgh and Youngstown. But they will...
...operated sector of the Chinese Eastern Railway south of Harbin. Allegedly M. Ivanoff, the Soviet general manager of this sector of the railway, was "arrested" by Chang's soldiers, who thought that they should be allowed to ride free. Certain rolling stock appears to have been smashed, a mail car looted, and two Soviet engineers forced to operate trains on which the Chinese soldiers rode...