Word: round-the-world
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...days later it was briefly announced from Los Angeles that fares on Dollar, American Mail, Canadian Pacific and Nippon Yusen Kaisha lines had been upped approximately 7%. Another 3% will be added later. Lowest Dollar Line round-the-world tours will now cost $915 instead of $888; first-class minimum San Francisco-to-Manila $460 instead of $430. With a record season since 1929 just completed, Atlantic fares are also due to move upward...
...would prohibit the Navy from undertaking costly searches for lost aircraft unless the latter were in regular commercial service or on missions of "unquestionable scientific value." Pilot Dick Merrill, who flies the Atlantic by dead reckoning, and Manhattan Columnist Mark Hellinger were bluntly refused permission to make a round-the-world flight. Snapped Assistant Secretary of Commerce Colonel John Monroe Johnson: "From now on no individual will be permitted to take off on any ocean or round-the-world flight that smacks of a stunt...
...making a round-the-world flight, the world's No. 1 aviatrix cracked up in Hawaii in her first try three months ago. With her Lockheed Electro, patched up, she took off in the opposite direction June 1 with Fred Noonan, onetime ace navigator for Pan American Airways,* flew leisurely to South America, Africa, India, Australia with a minimum of newspaper or public interest. July 1 they left Lae, New Guinea for the "worst section"-the 2,550 miles of open ocean to tiny Rowland Island, where no plane had ever been. With typical stunt flyer's negligence...
...window he would scoop them by broadcasting the news all the way to the ground. Mary Bradley (Diana Gibson), the Star's sobsister, had been engaged to him until he sent her to pick out a ring while he beat her to the story of a round-the-world flight. In her opinion he was such an "utter cockroach" that she hired thugs to bar him from a dance hall fire, news of which he wished to broadcast from his pack-set. Mary stole the pack-set, found it handy after she was kidnapped by a gang of thugs...
...Home last week from a 36,466-mile round-the-world business trip by air, during which he arranged for U. S. planes to fly regularly between Manila and Hongkong, Juan Terry Trippet 36, president and general manager of Pan American Airways, was elected a director of Chrysler Corp. Not because he is a heavy stockholder, not because Chrysler is becoming interested in aviation, young Mr. Trippe was invited into the No. 3 motors directorate because Walter P. Chrysler, who often sees his neighbor and tenant at lunch in the Cloud Club atop the Chrysler Building, believes in surrounding himself...