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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forthcoming Tunney-Dempsey prizefight; and return. Planes. Twenty planes, carrying 4 to 8 passengers each, will make the tour. Each will have a glass enclosed cabin, wicker armchairs, radio headphones at each seat. Money's Worth. The round-trip fare of $575 includes hotel quarters at tour start and at Chicago, motor carriage between hotels and flying fields, a picnic lunch en route, re-served ringside seat at the fight, and "a stop for one hour at the Cleveland landing field in order that the passengers may have an opportunity to stretch their legs and see something of Cleveland...
...Bourget flying field, near Paris, ventured Charles A. Levine, stubby, irascible transatlantic flyer. There he bade mechanics start the motor of his plane, the Columbia. When they obeyed, thinking he wished to taxi about the field for amusement, Charles A. Levine got in all by himself, reared along the runway, tilted the wings, jolted clumsily into the air, swooped dangerously over the airdrome, then set out over the Channel for England...
...Vauclain's long, humorous upper lip drew down when he said that. He was obviously temporizing, playing a part, and he is skillful and prompt at playing parts when necessary. The overnight discovery of a quorum last week recalled Mr. Vauclain's tactics when, at the start of a rail strike, labor delegates visited the 25,000 non-union workers in his "little foundry." In 20 minutes he had jailed all the delegates...
...intervals behind him rose John W. Frost flying the Golden Eagle; Capt. W. P. Erwin flying the Dallas Spirit; J. Auggy Pedlar flying the Miss Doran (carrying with him Miss Mildred Doran, school teacher from Flint, Mich.); Goebel; and Jensen. Pabco Flyer and El Encanto crashed at the start. Soon Erwin returned with an unlucky windhole in his fuselage. Soon Griffin returned, his engine failing. Out over the blue Pacific flew Goebel, Jensen; Frost, Pedlar; and their navigators; and Pedlar's passenger...
...last week announced the fulfillment of the promise that he made two years ago when the Federal air mail service was organized?that his company would accept the services of the first reliable company equipped to handle express by air. On Sept. 1, the American Railway Express Co. will start shipping packages on a 32½ -hour air express schedule between Manhattan and San Francisco. Intermediate stops for delivery and receipt of goods have been set for Cleveland, Chicago, Iowa City, Des Moines, Omaha, North Platte (Neb.), Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Reno and Sacramento. Goods may be sent by air express...