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...phone rang and a voice told him to go to another phone booth. There he found a typed note and a public locker key taped under the seat. In the locker at Portland's Union Station, he found a third note ordering him to hire a Yellow Cab (with no two-way radio) and drive on Highway 99E the 120 miles to Eugene, at 25 m.p.h. When a car behind flashed its lights three times, he was to throw out the suitcase and drive on five miles before turning back. If no headlight flashed, he was to return...
...that provide power for all 24 of the freighter's 7-ft.-4-in. pneumatic-tired wheels. The monster has a range of 1,000 miles, requires neither rails nor road and can travel over almost any kind of terrain at a speed of 15 m.p.h. The engine cab contains insulated sleeping quarters for four men. To get the giant from Texas to Alaska, Le Tourneau had to ship it on specially built flatcars to Seattle, from there Alaskan Freight will move it to Alaska by boat...
First they formed Republic Air Coach System to handle the financial end, then bought up four small nonscheduled lines with valid CAB letters of registration-Twentieth Century Air Lines. Trans National Airlines, Trans American Airways, Hemisphere Air Transport-to supply planes and pilots...
This was too successful both for CAB and the big scheduled airlines. Charging that the lines flew too regularly and too often, CAB put them out of business. The four-man team of flyers promptly organized North American as a series of interlocking companies to get around the rules...
...Perfect Safety." The CAB took out after North American almost as soon as it started. But by one legal dodge after another, the line has managed to keep going. And it has turned into a whopping success. It started the first $99 fare coast to coast, expanded its air-coach business so fast that it forced the scheduled lines to start air-coach flights (today 34% of all airline travel is by air coach). North American made enough money to buy two Douglas DC-6Bs for nonstop transcontinental flights, has three more on order, and has been able to chop...