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...acquired another strategic outpost-Alaskan Airways, comprising 2,500 mi. of lines. The future was too obscure to be read in detail but any observer could make plausible guesses merely on the strength of Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau's recent predictions of airplane service between Europe and the Orient via the Northern Passage, Canada, northern U. S., the Pacific Coast, the Kuriles (TIME, Aug. 8). Alaskan Airways was the property of potent Aviation Corp. (American Airways holding company) which holds a 12% interest in P. A. A. It was organized in 1929 by the late Carl Ben Eielson, father...
...airplane passage between New York and Europe he saw little immediate future; steamships are too fast. His hopes lie in developing a direct mail service from Europe through Canada and northern U. S. to the Pacific Coast and the Orient...
...reduction or cancellation of the debts. . . than by means of a conference. . . which would be permitted to deal with [1] Reparations and Debts; [2] Disarmament; [3] the re-establishment of the gold standard (31 nations being now off the gold standard) ; [4] the stabilization of silver in the Orient and [5] possibly other questions...
...Siam will be the first country of the Orient to recover from the world-wide Depression," prophesied U. S. Minister to Siam Dr. David E. Kaufman last week in Towanda...
Responding to this long-awaited invitation in the New York County Court House last week, the slick incumbent of "the third biggest job in the U. S." glanced alertly about him to orient friend & foe, shot his broad, lopsided campaign smile, sat down jauntily to defend himself against gravest suspicions of his official conduct. As he looked around him in the packed, hot chamber, Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker could see friends aplenty: Lawyer Dudley Field Malone, Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney's wife, a host of rowdy Tammanyites and the hard-headed Democratic minority of the Legislative investigation...