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...Miami's 36th Street airport, a K.L.M. Lockheed Super-Electra landed ten passengers, 25,000 first-flight "covers" for stamp collectors, eight hours and 44 minutes after taking off from Curacao. It was the first scheduled Caribbean-U.S. flight ever made by a commercial plane that did not belong to Pan American Airways...
...front in the Constellation was scholarly Eddie Allen, famed big-plane test pilot (whose hand on the controls cuts first-flight insurance rates in half). Methodically he got his engines started, warmed them, taxied out onto the field...
...Azores, on its first regular passenger flight (44 hours).* It was just 20 years to the month since Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic hop. In the seat once reserved for well-loved Will Rogers sat W. J. Eck, assistant vice president of Southern Railway, an engineer whose hobbies are photography and globe-flying and whose name was first of some 300 first-flight applicants...
...week's price for the old stock. For the oddest theme in the RKO story is that while its finances went from bad to worse, its position in the cinema industry showed astonishing improvement. In booming 1929, RKO was hardly more than a promotion. Today it is a first-flight producer, distributor and exhibitor and showed a profit of $1,446,000 for the first 39 weeks...
...size, over-the-counter dealers range from a single individual with desk. space and a telephone to the big unlisted Wall Street houses with the capital and prestige of a first-flight member of the Stock Exchange. They make the markets for the nation's unlisted issues, varying from active Manhattan bank stocks to local real-estate mortgages. All the listed issues on. all U. S. stock exchanges foot up to only 7,000. The roster of unlisted issues may be as high...