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...from Newark one rainy, windy evening last week climbed the world's most comfortable land transport plane. Aboard were 14 passengers, mostly bankers, bound for California and the American Bankers' Association meeting. As the plane shot west at 200 m.p.h. on a strong tail wind, they lolled on divans arranged in eight Pullman sections or walked up & down the corridor between the lavatories at the rear and the private compartment held by two of their number just aft of the cockpit. Presently the stewardess set up small tables in each section, served a hot seven-course dinner with...
World's first aerial sleeper service was started in the autumn of 1933 by Eastern Air Transport with an 18-passenger two-berth Curtiss Condor on the Newark-Atlanta run (TIME, Oct. 15, 1933). Only other U. S. airline to try the service since has been American, which started it with Condors between Los Angeles and Dallas in April 1934, found it popular (TIME, July 16, 1934). This service, no longer necessary, was discontinued last week. Other long-run airlines will probably put on service like American's new one as soon as their Douglas...
Next morning Ruby Hart ("Miss Nebraska") announced that she was homesick, sped to Newark airport, flew back to Omaha. That left only 47 beauties to appear that evening in the ballroom of the Steel Pier before a committee composed of Illustrators James Montgomery Flagg and Russell Patterson, Vincent Trotter of Paramount Pictures' Art Department, George B. Petty of Esquire, Photographer Hal Phyfe. Black-haired, blue-eyed Rose Veronica Coyle, 22, of Yeadon, Pa. became "Miss America of 1936," won a trip by air to Hollywood and a screen test.* Convulsively clutching her loving-cup, Rose Veronica Coyle beamed, squealed...
...market for platinum is controlled by the selling agencies of a few producers. The big producers in Canada, Colombia and South Africa sell directly to the trade and to jobbers through a handful of agents such as Johnson & Matthey of London and Charles Engelhard, head of Baker & Co. of Newark. Russia sells through Amtorg. With this small field of big sellers and an unorganized field of small buyers no one could tell whether the recent platinum boom was caused by a rush of buying or a reluctance to sell. Last week the air was full of conjectures. Least ominous guess...
...Hilton, 28, one-half of the Hilton Siamese twins; and Trombonist James Moore, 25; on the 50-yd. line of Texas Centennial's Cotton Bowl; in Dallas. Because she is joined to Twin Daisy at the hips, Twin Violet has been refused marriage licenses in Manhattan, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark...