Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commonplace as a steamship crossing" was considered by many a fairly far-fetched prediction for dirigible travel in the near future. Yet last week, with so little fanfare that few in the U. S. were aware of it, the Graf Zeppelin visited Rio de Janeiro with passengers & mail on her fifth voyage from Friedrichshafen since Aug. 28. At the same time in Akron, Ohio an important milestone was passed in U. S. dirigible development. On the strength of a radiogram from the Secretary of the Navy, Lieut. Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle, naval inspector of construction of the airship Akron...
...this fleet was spectacularly purchased from the Government in the boom of 1929 by Banker Paul Wadsworth Chapman who proceeded to sell stock to the public on patriotic grounds. But in days when no Atlantic fleet makes any money to speak of, and with Britain's greatest Royal Mail losing millions, the prospects for an American fleet in the New York-Europe run, with the extra handicap of high wages and Prohibition, were indeed forlorn...
...Chapman was forced to cry for more Government help (TIME, June 29). In reply, the Shipping Board directed that the U. S. Lines be sold to the highest bidder. The deadline on Aug. 13 found two sealed envelopes in Shipping Board's mail box. One was a $3,000,000 offer from a brilliant young combination called International Mercantile Marine-Roosevelt. The other had come from irrepressible Banker Chapman who had found financial allies in the Pacific-the Robert ("Round the World") Dollars, the San Francisco Fleishhackers and Steamshipman Kenneth Dawson of Portland. Their bid topped the rival offer...
...fleet of six lines (Red Star, Atlantic Transport, Leyland, Baltimore Mail, U. S. Lines, American Merchant Lines) plying the main Atlantic route with weekly and bi-weekly sailings...
When a pilot can see anything at all over the Alleghenies he is thankful. One night last week Pilot Leigh R. Murphy of United Air Lines, flying mail & passengers between Newark and Cleveland, found what he called record visibility for the route. At one time he could see eleven beacons, spaced ten miles apart. At 6,000 ft. above Allentown, Pa., he reported he could see simultaneously the glare from the lights of Philadelphia, Trenton and New York, 100 mi. away...