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...trade are eastwest, Denver has only a north-south airline. To get to either coast a Denverite has a choice of flying north for 97 mi. on Wyoming Air Service to Cheyenne and United Air Lines' transcontinental route or south for 419 mi. on Wyoming Air Service and Varney Air Transport to catch TWA at Albuquerque. Though Denver and the airlines have long been aware that both could profit by altering this uneconomic situation, they have been prevented from doing so by an opposition as steep as the scarp of the Rockies which so long held back the railroads...
...Varney's Fare Sirs: In the issue of TIME, dated Jan. 25, under the heading of "Skylounges," you state that United Air Lines non-stop service between New York and Chicago is the world's first extra-fare plane service. You overlooked the fact that the Varney Speed Lines, which formerly operated Lockheed planes between San Francisco and Los Angeles, had an extra-fare service...
True it is that defunct Varney Speed Lines operated the first aerial extra-fare passenger service. Regular fare between Los Angeles and San Francisco was $18.95. Varney charged $25, refunded 10? a minute for every minute's delay over 1 hr. 58 min. flying time...
...Down upon Colorado last week swept the worst September blizzard in years, smothering Denver with 17 inches of snow, disrupting traffic throughout the State. Up from El Paso, Tex. about the same time climbed a single-motored Lockheed Vega belonging to Varney Air Transport, Inc., passenger-mail line between El Paso and Pueblo, Colo. Meeting bad weather, Pilot C. H. Chidlaw landed at Trinidad, Colo, for the night. Next morning he and his two passengers headed north again. Twenty minutes later, three ranchers near lonely Rattlesnake Buttes saw the plane circling in distress through the heavy blizzard. Apparently intending...
...summary: HARVARD, 3 WORCESTER, 1 Williams, g. g., Leary Bradley, r.f. r.f., Ryder, Oben Sheridan, l.f. l.f., Karle Macneil, Brown, r.h. r.h., Simonds Jacobsen, c.h. c.h., Sanderson Phillips, l.h. l.h., Bullock, Goodrich Wittkin, Hammond, r.o. r.o., Pino (Capt.) Johnson, r.i. r.i., Johnson Lewis, Manning, c. c., Adams, Varney Johansen, l.i. l.i., Jackson Sinnott, l.o. l.o., Edmands...