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...such recurrent crackups as beset Overland Airlines (see above) have marred the bright record of seagoing Pan American Airways. In seven years of flying-boat service from Florida to South America, Pan American, up to last week, had seriously injured no passenger. Safe as a church seemed the 19-ton Clippers which have flown the run for two years. Yachts with wings, they had plenty of water to land on in case of trouble. Last week something happened to a southbound Clipper before it left the harbor of Trinidad's Port-of-Spain...
ORDEAL BY HUNGER - George R. Stewart Jr.-Holt ($2.75). The grisly true story of the Donner Party, who went overland to California in 1846, took an unfortunate "short-cut," were trapped by winter in the Sierras. Some of them kept going by turning cannibal. Forty-six of the 87 got through alive. With illustrations and maps...
Wells Fargo had found little trouble in getting its hands on Butterfield's Overland Mail line in 1861 or on its successor, the Pony Express. But in 1869 it was caught napping while the first transcontinental railroad pushed through. When Wells Fargo put in a bid for the rail express contract, it found that an upstart named Pacific Union Express already had it. Simultaneously, it discovered the same concern had beaten down Wells Fargo stock from $100 to $13, then bought in, acquired control. In 1872, following a vast shuffle of officers, Lloyd Tevis of San Francisco became president...
...against a loss of $3,724,000 in 1934. With General Motors, Ford and Chrysler selling about 92% of 1935 cars, the little companies have hoed a hard row. Last week the Hupp plant was closed and Hupp President Vern Drum had resigned. Willys-Overland secured a court order allowing it to build 15,000 units, partly to keep labor off relief rolls...
Based upon first-class accommodations throughout, and including a comprehensive program of shore excursions and overland tours, the cost will be $980 per person. This will cover the entire voyage, from the time the ship sails from New York on July 4 to its return on September...