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Andree's venture, first of its kind, was founded on what he sincerely believed to be scientific data. It had the financial support of the King of Sweden and Norway and of Alfred Nobel. His balloon, an elaborate affair, measured 97 ft. from the top of the bag (wt. 1½ tons) to the bottom of the two-decked basket. It was rigged with drag ropes and sails, by which Andree was confident the prevailing south winds would blow it over the Pole, 700 mi. away...
...Mackay at Hunt-hill, Brechin. Bernard Baruch could not stay but Silkman Emil Stehli and Charles Steele of the House of Morgan were shooting. Other U. S. gunners-Broker Andre Pillot, Banker Edward Shearson, Red D Line's Frederic Dallet-were talking about their first week's bags. Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes left for an archaeological tour in France after a week in Perthshire, in high fettle because he had potted eleven birds the first morning and shot well above the average of his party every day. Once more, in spite of predictions that the international polo...
...20th Century Limited in Manhattan strode a tall, hatless, tousled young man with a traveling bag in one hand which he would let no porter carry. To Broadway he sped, for he was Howard Hughes Jr. cinema producer, and in the bag were the reels of his picture Hell's Angels on which he spent nearly three years and over $4,000,000 (TIME, June 9). He had personally conveyed the film to Manhattan for its Eastern premi?...
...crash most dreaded by airmail men is the one that ends in fire. Unless the pilot can extricate the bags from the flames, the mail is surely lost, there being no perfected means of dumping the bags in flight in an emergency.* Post Office officials eyed with interest an experiment begun last week by National Air Transport and Railway Express Agency, with a fireproof and heat-proof cargo pouch developed by Johns-Manville Corp. This new bag was said to withstand a fire hot enough to melt sheet-metal and fuse pipes, without allowing even the sealing wax on letters...
...will use the pouch for valuable express shipments. One drawback to adoption of the bag by the Post Office is its weight?20 Ib. as compared to the present 6-lb. type...