Word: varney
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When President Roosevelt ordered all domestic airmail contracts canceled, Walter T. Varney telegraphed Postmaster General Farley that he could and would fly the entire U. S. airmail in 20 ships for the postage alone. Though the Varney offer was not taken up, it was not the proposal of a crackpot. In 1925. Mr. Varney got the first private contract to fly U. S. mail in the Pacific Northwest on a line which he later developed into the Salt Lake-Seattle system and sold to United Air Lines six years later...
...numerous occasions in the last 13 years airplanes have alighted on the lake, but until last week every one had to be dismantled and trucked down the mountainside. Reason: the rarefied atmosphere of Lake Tahoe (elev. 6,225 ft.) reduces airplane efficiency 30%.* Last week a Sikorsky amphibian of Varney Speed Lines flew from San Francisco Bay Airdrome to the lake, carrying Pilot Monty Sharp, Owner Walter T. Varney, two airline executives. After discharging his three passengers, Pilot Sharp managed to make the first take-off in history from Lake Tahoe...
...oldest free secondary school in the U. S. Ever since the days of Founder John Eliot, apostle to the Indians, for headmasters Roxbury Latin School has always picked New Englanders. Last week the Roxbury trustees took the breathless step of electing a Westerner to succeed their late Headmaster Daniel Varney Thompson. They chose George Norton Northrop, 52, Wisconsin-born English teacher, onetime headmaster of Manhattan's Brearley School, and headmaster of Chicago's comparatively upstart Latin School (founded 1888) until he resigned last February because of financial troubles (TIME, Feb. 13). The appointment of Headmaster Northrop, urbane...
Lloyd C. Stearman, 33, plane designer, founder and onetime president of United Aircraft & Transport's subsidiary, Stearman Aircraft Co., was made president of reorganized Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Formerly a unit of defunct Detroit Aircraft, Lockheed was purchased at a receiver's sale last month by Walter T. Varney, pioneering West coast airline operator...
...early billboard-advertising tycoon of California, Walter Varney is advertising-wise. When, as the first airmail contractor in the Pacific Northwest (1925), he found people reluctant to send their letters by plane, Varney advertised. Last year he sold his well-developed system (Salt Lake City-Pasco-Portland-Spokane-Seattle) to United Air Lines, whose transcontinental system it joined at Salt Lake City, turned his attention to the highly competitive San Francisco-Los Angeles route, already operated by three other airlines on a three-hour flying schedule. He put highspeed Lockheed Orions on the run and lopped a full hour from...