Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Utah Off Panama Roads...
...similar advisory positions with the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics (of which he is also a trustee); with the Trans-Continental Air Transport (for whom last week he started to fly across the continent via Mexico City); and with Pan-American Airways, Inc. (whose Florida-to-Panama mail route he inaugurated last fortnight). His salaries from these civilian organizations have never been made public. His contract with Pan-American Airways forbids his advising any other companies doing a foreign transport business...
...Second Assistant Postmaster General Glover announced last week that Col. Lindbergh had violated the Pan-American Airways Co.'s contract with the U. S. by transporting 170 pounds of mail stamped by the Republic of Panama to the U. S. Only U. S. mail, pending further postal arrangements in Central America, was to have been carried. Philatelists were charged with responsibility for the violation. Col. Lindbergh was not reprimanded. In Manhattan, last week, a stamped envelope carried over the North Pole in 1926 by Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd sold at auction...
...From Panama it will be easy to extend airmail and passenger service into South America. Pan-American Airways, Inc., for whom Col. Lindbergh flew, announced that it intends soon to extend its routes to Guayaquil, Lima, Antofagasta, Valparaiso and across the Andes to Buenos Aires. Airmail flown thus from Manhattan to Buenos Aires can arrive in five days. By ship down the Atlantic, Manhattan-Buenos Aires mail now takes 14 to 17 days...
Lieut. Carrington's letter weighed less than two ounces, but it fell from a bombing plane which carried torpedoes weighing 1,800 lbs. each, and it fell within the vital area of the Miraflores and Pedro Miguel Locks of the Panama Canal. And it fell while the U. S. battle fleet was attempting last week to "destroy" the Canal in the most intricate of war games. The U. S. scouting fleet was trying to defend...