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Special Delivery. In Spokane, Wash., a porter stepped off a train to hustle some sandwiches, got left, gave chase in a cab, finally caught up six hours later, delivered the sandwiches, but couldn't quite pay the cab fare...
...American Airways, which for long was the only frog in the big Pacific puddle, may soon get fast-hopping company. Last week Civil Aeronautics Board examiners recommended that Northwest Airlines, Inc. should be given a transpacific route. The examiners, whose findings are usually followed by CAB, recommended that Northwest fly the adventurous Great Circle route from Minneapolis-St. Paul to Manila via Alaska, Paramushiro, Tokyo and Shanghai. As Northwest now flies from New York to Minneapolis (TIME, Jan. 1), it would thus have the first direct service from New York to the Orient...
Hughes, who divides his time and money between films, tool making, a brewery, flying and financing, owns about 45% of T.W.A. stock. Pan Am, with impish innocence, reminded the CAB of this. By nightfall, Washington remembered that Frye was best man when Elliott Roosevelt married Cinemactress Faye Emerson on the Grand Canyon rim last December. Hollywood instantly recalled that Elliott met Faye through Johnny Meyer, a talent scout and handy man for Hughes. All this occurred while Franklin Roosevelt was in the White House, and before the CAB had ruled on the T.W.A. applications...
Through all the hullabaloo, one fact was clear: the CAB had by no means settled everything by its rejection of the "chosen instrument" plan for postwar U.S.aviation. The airlines, urged by CAB to compete with each other, were not only competing, but also fighting (see below). They would probably go on doing so until Congress passed the definitive word. Sound airmen hoped it would waste no time when it sat down to work again...
...gasoline ran into elevator shafts and exploded. Parts of the plane sheared elevator cables, and one elevator fell. One of the plane's engines crashed into an elevator shaft, screeched 79 floors, fell on the cab, carried it down to wreckage in the basement. The other engine and other heavy parts ripped through seven inner walls, then tore a hole in the south side of the building-90 feet from the point of crash. The wreckage fell in a sculptor's 12th-floor penthouse studio in a building across the street, caused another fire...