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Karachi is a seaport on the Arabian Sea. It is the terminus of the London-India air mail and many industries are sprouting there...
...college" takes a step toward solving the first problem by providing a general education for the large group who neither wish nor deserve specialized instruction in the arts and sciences. It avoids the necessity of persevering through four years merely because "there is no curriculum leading to a dignified terminus at an earlier period...
...Atlanta to Los Angeles was opened by Southern Air Fast Express, operating company formed by American Airways (of Aviation Corp.), joint bidder with Southwest Air Fast Express for the mail contract (TIME, Oct. 6). President Coburn and Vice Chairman Grosvenor of Avco made the inaugural trip. Passengers leave either terminus at early morning, may stop overnight at Fort Worth or Dallas (about 16 hr.) and reach the opposite end next evening. (Fare, $147.15). Service will be completed between New York and Atlanta about Dec. 1 when Eastern Air Transport, mail operators, begin carrying passengers...
Year and a half ago the Post Office Department designated Newark Municipal Airport as official eastern terminus for the transcontinental airmail. National Air Transport, operator of the New York-Cleveland-Chicago route, insisted the field was unfit for night landings of heavily loaded Douglas and Boeing ships, refused to move its base from Hadley Field, New Brunswick, N. J. While a three-cornered dispute was waged, New Yorkers continued to wait an extra 90 min. for airmail to be transported from distant Hadley Field to Manhattan's postoffices. Last week there was an air pageant of jubilation above Newark...
Possibly the trouble is that His Holiness has not scrupulously paid the 10,000 rupees annual tribute he must pay the Mahara-jadhiraya of Nepal according to a still-valid "perpetual unity" signed in 1856. Whatever the trouble, the Grand Dalai Lama despatched couriers weeks ago who reached the terminus of a Chinese telegraph last week and sent frantic appeals for troops to the Chinese Nationalist Government in Nanking, promising to pay them well if they will travel and march about 2,500 miles to the defense of Lhasa...