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Flying Governor. Governor George Alexander Parks of Alaska was at Juneau when he made up his mind to see his niece (he is unmarried), Mary Catherine Thompson, graduated from Mills College, Oakland, Cal., last Monday. So he jumped into an Alaska Airways Lockheed-Vega and made the 1,800-mi. trip in 20½, hours, first air passenger to accomplish it in so short a time...
...aviation has in the two years become a mighty thing. A two-hundred-million-dollar air industry has developed. The airmail, which Paul Henderson systematized with difficulty when he was Second-Assistant Postmaster-General (1922-25)*, at the beginning of this month was operating over 22,778 mi. of airways, with 3,975 mi. more scheduled soon...
...possible for an air traveler to fly completely around the country for an average cost of 9? per mile. The longest air line and at present the only transcontinental one is the Boeing Air Transport. Its Chicago-San Francisco run is 1,943 mi. Its nearest overland competitor is Pacific Air Transport's Seattle-Los Angeles run, 1,099 mi...
Died. Edward Payson Weston 90, of Brooklyn, N. Y., able pedestrian; in Brooklyn. His U. S. records: Boston to Washington, D. C., 443 mi., 208 hrs.; Portland, Me., to Chicago, 1,345 mi., 25 days; Manhattan to San Francisco, 3,500 mi., 104 days (aged 71); Santa Monica, Calif., to Manhattan, 3,500 mi., 77 days (aged 72). In a race in England he walked 550 mi. in 141 hrs., left his nearest competitor 100 mi. behind...
...Compressed Air, upon which he had been experimenting (e.g. his air-brake). The original plans of Cataract Construction Co. actually called for a plant at the Falls whence Mr. Westinghouse felt confident he could transmit compressed air to take the place of steam behind industrial pistons in Buffalo, 20 mi. away...