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Macready and Kelly will now attempt to fly around the globe. Lieut. R. L. Maugham, will pilot the Curtiss Army plane-speed record of 245 miles per hour-across the continent in a daylight flight. But more solid significance is attached to the coast-to-coast flight than introduction to further records. It means a tremendous boost for the Air Mail plan of continuous service between New York and San Francisco. It points to the entire feasibility of commercial air lines across the continent. Ultimately no business house will be able to afford any mail but air mail; no business...
...terms on which it will receive bids for the restricted sale of its entire merchant fleet. These bids will be opened on May 28. Meanwhile it also announced the regrouping of its lines into 18 routes, twelve operating from the Atlantic and Gulf ports and six from the Pacific Coast. The terms of the bidding are: " The bidder must specify the names of the ships he desires to purchase, the price offered and terms of payment, the route over which he will undertake to maintain service, the charter, frequency and extent of service, period of time for which he will...
...only interesting thing about the " nationwide" strike called by the Marine Transport Workers' Union to tie up shipping on the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Coast ports, is that it is being run by the I. W. W. From all reports the strike itself is a failure: San Francisco, Seattle, San Pedro, New York, Boston, Baltimore and other big shipping centers assert that their vessels are hardly affected...
...power boat Napeague ran into New York Harbor flying red flags at bow and stern. A coast guard cutter approached and the Captain of the Napeague shouted: "Keep away from us. We are loaded with dynamite ! " But the coast guards boarded the Napeague and found 1,600 cases of whiskey under her tarpaulins...
President Harding: " In California a corporation was formed called the ' Association of Young Men's Republican Leagues of California.' Its purpose is to welcome me when I visit the Pacific Coast on my trip this summer...