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Bridges. The oldest Kingdom in the world, Denmark is less than 17.000 square mi. in area...
Taking off from New York's Floyd Bennett Field with Co-Pilot John S. Lambie in a twin-motored Lockheed Electra which once belonged to Harold S. Vanderbilt, he buzzed uneventfully to England, landed at North Weald. 15 mi. from London, to get his bearings, then went on to Croydon. His time: 21 hr. 3 min. His purpose: to fly pictures of the Coronation back to the U. S. He did not take with him newsreels of the Hindenburg disaster because London did not want that tragedy to punctuate its Coronation gaiety...
...Last fortnight, recalling that skiing won U. S. favor through snow trains, Jakob Kissner persuaded the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. to try a faltboat train. This week it will run from Manhattan to Falls Village, Conn., where the devotees will unfold their boats for an 18-mi. paddle down the Housatonic through 50 rapids (including one dangerous one) to Flanders, Conn., where the train will pick them up again. Cost of ticket: $2.25. Rent of a faltboat: $4 for a single-seater, $7 for a tandem...
...Minneapolis one morning last week, Special Master in Chancery Howard Strickland Abbott donned his black topcoat, his grey fedora, picked up his brief case and set out for the yards of Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. It was Mr. Abbott's duty to put that dilapidated 1,600-mi. railroad on the auction block. By court order he was to offer the road at "the main entrance of the division superintendent's office at the Cedar Lake Shops." Arriving at the precise spot on the second floor of a grimy yellow brick building, white-crowned old Master Abbott...
...Lehigh Valley Railroad, whose 1,300 mi. of track in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey run through some of the finest scenery and richest anthracite resources in the U. S., received 26% more from coal shipments last year than in 1935. Since the Lehigh is primarily a coal-carrier, this meant Recovery. With coal & steel booming on merrily, last week rugged Edward Eugene Loomis, president of the road for 20 years, retired to become board chairman. Elected to succeed him was Scottish-born Duncan John Kerr, a rail-road man since 1904, when he arrived...