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...every one knows, air travel throughput the land is but little more expensive (in some cases less) than train-plus-Pullman fare. But few realize that airline tickets can be obtained as easily as any other transportation tickets. All large transport companies have coast-to-coast arrangements with hotels, travel agencies, telegraph companies where schedules can be obtained, tickets purchased. American Airways has more than 9,000 such outlets...
Greatest disappointment of the show's opening, from a spectacular standpoint, was the absence of the new 40-passenger Ford "Pullman" developed by Ford's Chief Engineer William Benson Mayo. Last-minute work on the ship was rushed at the Ford plant in hope of having it on the hangar floor before the show closed...
...shaped rudder it measures 80 ft., the fuselage suggesting somewhat the flying-fish appearance of the Curtiss Condor. Inside each wing is built a 715-hp. Hispano-Suiza engine. The third engine, of 1,100 hp., is mounted atop the centre. Four passenger compartments are furnished with two standard Pullman sections each. A smoking compartment could accommodate additional passengers. There are two lavatories, a galley with gas stove...
...Supreme Court becomes the censor of all important economic and social experiments within the States. Does Kansas want to set up a compulsory Labor Court to fix wages and outlaw strikes? The Supreme Court, under the second "due process" clause, says it may not. Does Wisconsin want to penalize Pullman Co. for letting down empty upper berths? The Supreme Court says Wisconsin would unconstitutionally deprive the company of its "liberty." May Florida fix certain below-cost freight rates on special commodities to build up a local industry? No, says the Supreme Court. Does North Dakota want to establish a freight...
...Pullman Co. denied that its rates were already based on two-in-a-berth...