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Scarcely five years out of Yale ('22) when he started his airline, Trippe nursed it with force and farsightedness. Pan Am began as a handful of flying boats shuttling 110 miles between Key West and Cuba; its 73,000 miles of routes now connect 85 nations, and last year's earnings of $33.6 million on $561 million in revenues were the most ever made by any airline. Gray has been in on practically all of this growth. A member of the first group of pilots hired by Pan Am in 1929, he was the first commercial flyer...
...street of Wilmington. Florida's Dade County (Miami) supplies 25% of the state's gasoline-tax revenue, gets back only 4% of this for highway construction; the county has 1,000,000 people, but not one state-supported park or beach. In many states, four-lane highways connect small, out-of-the-way towns, while metropolitan areas choke on inadequate roads...
...that because of the state's one year statute of limitations for misdemeanors, he was not exposing himself to further state prosecution, but the Supreme Court ruled that if he had been compelled to testify, he might have furnished "a link in a chain of evidence sufficient to connect him with a more recent crime for which he might still be prosecuted." The court's turnabout served notice on the states that from now on they will be required to honor the stricter federal protection against selfincrimination...
...million for airport, dock and road construction to connect backwater towns with larger population centers...
...Holyoke Center, we asked our guide whether it was usual to connect all new buildings to the Tunnel. He replied that the Tunnel is only extended when new buildings are close by. "Otherwise, the expense is prohibitive, and we just join the pipes through a trench." (A trench is a sort of small trough, big enough for pipes and cables but much too small for people.) Since the Tunnel comes down to Lowell House under Linden Street, Holyoke Center is not too far off the track, and a connection big enough for people was feasible. Instead of constructing a full...