Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eckener was in Washington last week discussing U. S. mail contracts for the trans-atlantic dirigible service which is perhaps to go into operation year after next...
...transcontinental airmail and passenger line is costly, as T. A. T. and Western Air Express have learned. Moreover, operation of the transcontinental & western route has not proved profitable because it is not yet flown by night, hence does not receive a large share of transcontinental mail. For that reason, but principally because of the general difficulties that have beset most airlines, Western Air Express has run somewhat short of funds. Last week it raised between $750,000 and $1,000,000 by selling 50,000 shares of its stock to General Aviation Corp., aviation subsidiary of General Motors Corp...
...from Russia. Not for three years has the Tribune had any correspondent in Russia. Last week with appropriate fanfare the Tribune announced that Mr. Wales had received the Soviet Government's permission to go wherever he likes, report the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, by mail...
...France. He flew with the celebrated 95th Pursuit Squadron, was officially credited with bringing down seven enemy planes in the St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives, for which he was decorated by the U. S., French and Belgian governments. Before joining Colonial Airways in 1926 to help pioneer the first mail and passenger service in the East, he operated oil wells in Mexico, planted sugar in Cuba, banked in Spain...
From Croydon last week flew the first plane of the new London-Africa weekly service which now runs to Mwanza, on the shore of Lake Victoria, and which is soon to be extended to Cape Town. With a change to flying boat at Athens, mail and passengers should reach Mwanza in nine days-a 32-day journey by steamer and train...