Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last winter to Hubert R.Knickerbocker, Berlin correspondent of New York's Evening Post, appeared one Vladimir Orloff, bald, vandyke-bearded, onetime Councillor of State in the Imperial Russian Government. Mephistophelian M. Orloff had in his possession letters elaborately typed on official Soviet notepaper purporting to show that U. S. Senators William Edgar Borah and George William Norris had accepted $100,000 bribes from Soviet agents...
Flyer Williams is president of Airvia Transportation Co. which is to begin New York-Boston passenger service this week, with Savoia-Marchetti flying boats...
...American Airways (U. S.) extended U. S. air mail service down the west coast from Mollendo, Peru, to Santiago, Chile, thus completing the longest U. S. air mail route?Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, to Santiago, 3,900 mi. Scheduled travel time from New York to Santiago is 8 days, against 21 days by boat. Postage per half-ounce is 70¢ from any point...
...President Ralph A. O'Neill of New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line was also in Rio, contending with Secretary Konder for the same contracts. President O'Neill had stopped there on a flight from San Juan to Buenos Aires surveying for the east coast air line he proposes to develop...
...greatest profits are expected from passenger transport over the tedious distances between U. S. and South American business centres. It still takes weeks to travel between the two continents by watership. Buenos Aires is 18 days from New York, Valparaiso 21 days. Distance has retarded U. S. exploitation and participation in Latin-American enterprises more than have differences in culture and language. National City and Chase National banks of Manhattan have already ventured into South America extensively. Officials of such banks and of industries with similar foreign enterprise will, the aviation companies confidently expect, travel often to South America...