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Dates: during 1930-1930
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When will American movie audiences be let into the secret that there are splendid express liners flying the stars and stripes on the North Atlantic? And when will movie producers decide that this American enterprise deserves support...
Secretary of War Davis was fascinated by what he heard of the great deserts in New Mexico, Arizona and southern California. In 1853, stagecoach lines or the Pony Express had not yet followed the covered wagons of the Gold Rush. There were Indians in the desert lands, Indians whom the War Department must subdue. Secretary of War Davis took thought and sent some Army commissioners to Egypt. Object: to buy dromedaries...
...well as they had crossed their native Sahara. Their wily stubborness made them unpopular with the soldiery; they stampeded horses and cattle. Nevertheless they were tested systematically in desert service for several years. In 1860 some of them helped build the famed Butterfield Stage road. In 1863 a dromedary express was started from San Pedro (port for Los Angeles) to Tucson, but it failed...
...super-Wals were imported and sold to Stout D & C Lines for use on the Great Lakes. But the Department of Commerce, which requires similar performance of seaplanes and land-planes, found fault with the Dornier take-offs and landings, and refused the Super-Wals licenses for passenger and express service. The craft lie idle in Philadelphia. Noncommittal as to the fate of Dornier Corp. of America, General Motors President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. told the New York World last week: "Technical studies by our engineers thus far haven't justified going ahead with the commercial exploitation...
...annual "win, lose, or draw" barn party. The meeting this year is of interest to the public as well, because retiring Coach Bill Roper of Princeton will be the guest of honor. By inviting Mr. Roper to attend this hitherto exclusively Yale gathering, the New Haven graduates not only express their own admiration for their guest but also give evidence of the fine sportsmanship that intercollegiate rivalry can create...