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Chicago had arctic weather on Dec. 9, 1932; when big, red-faced Traffic Police man William D. Lundy went off duty in mid-afternoon it was 11° below zero in the drab Southwest Side. Shivering, he headed for Vera Walush's delicatessen, a cheap speakeasy, and stamped through into the dark kitchen in the rear...
Blond, blowzy Vera Walush poured out two shots of raw moonshine, served them...
...protest to C.A.B. on transatlantic competition (see above) was not matched by its rough-&-tumble row with a competitor in Mexico. The competitor: Aerovias Braniff, S.A., affiliate of the U.S.'s Braniff Airways Inc. (TIME, April 16). The battleground: the route from Mexico City to Merida via Vera Cruz, where Braniff made its first flight on July...
Rough Flights. At Merida, a cavalcade of automobiles carrying a welcoming committee of local bigwigs was ignobly stopped at the airport gates. Armed guards once warned Braniff employes that they would be arrested for trespassing if they attempted to enter the field to service their plane. At Vera Cruz, where a Braniff plane arrived after dark, C.M.A. fieldmen refused to switch on the landing lights. At both Merida and Vera Cruz, Braniff passengers were forced to use the planes' cargo boxes in place of landing stages. They toted their own baggage, picked their way through barbed-wire fences...
...Devils Lake, N.D., a five-ton elephant named Vera died of an infected toe nail...