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Distance (straight line) : Squadron Leader C. B. Gayford and Flight-Lieut. G. E. Nicholetts; 5.126 mi. in landplane (Great Britain...
Distance (broken-line with refueling"): Lieuts. Lowell Smith & J. P. Richter, 3,293 mi. in landplane...
Distance (broken-line without refueling) : Lucien Bossoutrot & Maurice Rossi, 6,587 mi. in landplane (France...
...kept the briefcase fat was John Walker Barriger III, chief railroad economist to the banking house of Calvin Bullock. Short, stocky John Barriger, 34, is rated one of the ablest railroad analysts in Wall Street. His chief source of pleasure is Pennsylvania R. R. over whose 12,000 mi. of way he scurries on endless inspection trips and whose bulky annual report he generally knows by heart before it is published. John Barriger figures that U. S. railroads could save $700,000,000 each year if they were forced into wholesale consolidation...
...mi. of line, upwards of $600,000,000 in assets, gives MOP a place among the first ten U. S. roads. The Brothers Van Sweringen bought it to complete what the late great Edward Henry Harriman and Leonor Fresnel Loree long coveted-a transcontinental railroad system. Today though no other Van Sweringen line has actually collapsed, their superstructure of holding companies is supported almost solely by Chesapeake & Ohio-only U. S. road still paying dividends at the 1929 rate...