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...McAdoo plane cost $18,500. Mr. McAdoo can well afford it. He has long been rich. His law fees continually make him richer. For a merger which he is now bringing about he will get one more million dollars. After the 1920 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco and a decision that he was through with politics, the Bank of Italy retained him as lawyer at $50,000 a year, on condition that he desist from politics. His Presidential ambitions cost him that job when he stalemated the 1924 Democratic Convention at Manhattan. He still has his western law office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Refueling | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...each of the cities mentioned Airman-Lawyer McAdoo has leading citizens lined up, or about to be lined up, to speed his project through. Southern Skylines will compete mainly with Transcontinental Air Transport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Refueling | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...McAdoo has also in contemplation an Atlantic coastal line: New York-Washington-Richmond-Raleigh-Columbia-Augusta-Savannah-Jacksonville''-Miami. The cities between Washington and Jacksonville are not yet on even an air mail line. Pitcairn Aviation's mail planes go slightly west, through Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Refueling | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...McAdoo is just now cake-walking into aviation, he explained last week: "We're in a new era now. The rail-road boys must hustle to keep up. I ought to know." (He was War director of U. S. railways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Refueling | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...McAdoo (née Eleanor Randolph Wilson) absolutely refuses to fly. Last week she sailed for Europe. Her "Mac" will follow in a month, after he sets up Southern Skylines' capital structure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Refueling | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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