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...been the terminal. The changeover was not without confusion and argument. Newark's mayor, Jerome T. Congleton, zealous for good future income on the city's $7,000,000 airport investment, demanded one cent for every pound of mail delivered to the field or sent therefrom. Pitcairn Aviation (New York-Atlantic mail) and National Air Transport (New York-Chicago mail) wished to pay a flat $600 a month fee. Mayor Congleton won out at least temporarily...
Then there was trouble of landing N. A. T.'s large Douglas mail transports on Newark's at present narrow runways. Pitcairn agreed to use its small mail planes on a shuttle service between Newark and Hadley Field, shortest air mail service in the world...
...Soon Mr. Pitcairn and Señor de la Cierva may be reimbursed for their experimental investment. The autogiro is entered in the Guggenheim Fund's "safe aircraft competition" to develop an aerodynamically safe plane. Twelve U. S.. British and Italian manufacturers have already entered the competition. First prize is $100,000. There are also five $10,000 prizes...
President Harold F. Pitcairn of Pitcairn Aviation, Inc., has found such promise in Juan de la Cierva's Autogiro that last week he organized Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Co. of America to develop the autogiro in this country...
...negligence of the patriots, who failed to destroy the timbers of the bridge after removing them, was the relief column led by Lord Percy, the arrival of which at Lexington saved the British from being wiped out. This relief came as a result of the request of Major Pitcairn when he discovered at Lexington by the presence of the Minute Men drawn up on the Green, that advance information had been given of his expedition. Percy passed through Harvard Square shortly before noon...