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...weather was cold but sunny on the day Sandringham sent the last remains of beloved George V on a gun carriage to the railway station, with Queen Mary, the Princess Royal and the Duchesses of York. Gloucester and Kent following sorrowfully by carriage. King Edward and his three brothers walked bareheaded the whole two and a half miles, the collars of their closely-buttoned and furlined greatcoats upturned as they approached the station...
Improved air service will be offered to students planning to fly home at Easter. Starting tomorrow the land service of the Railway Express Agency will be united with the air resources of twenty-one domestic lines and the Pan American Airways...
...four hours during its water passage from the Wheeler Yards in Brooklyn to its docks in Manhattan, the Playmate was finally hoisted out of the water onto a 30-ton truck. The job took 40 minutes, cost $1,200. Last year, after measuring an elevated railway crossing and deciding it was just big enough for one of its boats to get under, Wheeler Co. was disappointed to find that a two-inch snow fall had made it impassable. Last week, the Playmate encountered no mishaps on land, reached the back door of Grand Central Palace 35 minutes after leaving...
...What the Railway Express Agency is to railroads, two rival companies have long been to airlines. Company No. 1 is Railway Express itself, with Pan American, United, twelve other airlines in its fold. Company No. 2 is General Air Express, a pool created by TWA, American, five other airlines, with pickups and deliveries handled by Postal Telegraph...
...confusion, Pan American and 20 of the 23 U. S. domestic airlines last week got together in Manhattan, decided to throw in their lot with Railway Express Agency. Announcing the agreement, effective Feb. 1, Railway Express promised door to door pick-up and delivery of air and air-rail express in 32 foreign countries and in 215 cities of the U. S. and Canada. Rates will stay the same. All of the Agency's 23,000 railway express offices will become air express stations as well...