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...First was a Confederate wooden gunboat which plied the Savannah River in 1864. Second was a steel freighter used as a cargo carrier in the World War. The city is in the Congressional district represented by Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee...
...portico Mr. Roosevelt kept his seat in the car, waited a few minutes for President Hoover to join him for the ride up Capitol Hill. A lift of silk hats, a quick handshake, a few formal words and their greeting was over. With the country's most precious cargo behind, Richard Jervis, silvery-haired chief of the White House Secret Service, slipped into the front seat of the car, kept its door cracked and one hand on his pocketed pistol...
...With a cargo of flowers, fruits, films, photos, Pilot "Buddy" Jones whipped a silvery Lockheed of Air Express Corp. off the runway of United Airport, Los Angeles, one afternoon last week to touch wheels at Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. at dawn. Time: 14 hr.-a transcontinental record for commercial planes. Scheduled time...
When the world's largest ship, S. S. Majestic, nosed down Southampton Water last trip, she carried precious cargo. In the first cabin were Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada', Novelist Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Violin Prodigy Ruggiero Ricci, Rev. Cyril Argentine Alington, Headmaster of Eton College (see p. 38). In the hold were 311 boxes of gold -$15,000,000 worth-part of Britain's $95,550,000 War debt payment...
Only through consignments will be accepted. To save time checking cargo, the load compartment will be sealed at the takeoff, remain sealed during fuel stops at Columbus, St. Louis, Wichita (where pilots change), Albuquerque, Seligman, Ariz, Among the pilots is famed Clyde Pangborn (round-the-World, 1931). Unbound by mail contracts or by required intermediate stops, the company may vary the planes' routes at will to escape bad weather, also to thwart possible attempts at robbery...