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...pieces of freight are eight feet by four feet, weigh 1,800 Ib. For these top hatches in the airplane are necessary, with tracks along which platforms are rolled to distribute the load evenly in the fuselage. To the job P. A.G. assigned one plane, an old, all-metal, tri-motor Ford (the San Fernando), calculated it would take 500 trips carrying a ton at a time, and expect to have the last load laid down in Tipuani Valley within 100 days. The saving in time over burros and porters is estimated at seven years, eight months; each trip taking...
...public projects to which the benevolent Democrat objects take the form of a series of new dwellings for the working population, as fine and practical examples of governmental paternalism as we have in the country, a number of public parks and playgrounds under the direction of Robert Moses, the Tri-Borough Bridge, new docks for the ocean liners, a health center for the poor in Harlem, and the west side highway on which you can travel from Canal Street to Poughkeepsie with-out stopping. As for driving out business, under the Fusion government the gain in factories from...
...against pirates (TIME, Oct. 4), and secondly for extending "conditional belligerent rights" to Spain's Rightists and Leftists, Italy in return should agree to a scheme of withdrawing all volunteers now fighting in Spain. Neither Rome, Paris nor Britain seemed likely to take an adamant position in the tri-power negotiations now under way on Spain, and prospects were for groping toward a compromise. General Attilio Teruzzi. staff commander of Italian volunteers in Spain, was said in reliable Rome quarters to have come to report in person to II Duce, will advise the Dictator as to probable war results...
From Oakland, Calif, he zipped to Fairbanks, Alaska in less than 14 hours. Following his $100,000 high-speed Lockheed was an old tri-motor Ford from which he planned to refuel in midair, thus tripling his range and obviating many landings in Alaskan mud, on ice hummocks or through fog, all deadly Arctic dangers. For 17 days, parka clad and living on seal meat and 18-month old eggs, Jimmie Mattern scoured the seacoast, the area flanking the 48th meridian and Alaska's mountainous interior. Because his refueling plane crashed just before reaching its destination...
North Beach Airport's present 105 acres lie on the south shore of Flushing Bay, eight miles by road northeast of Grand Central Station (in whose shadow most commercial airlines have their midcity passenger terminals), across the East River and the new Tri-Borough Bridge. Although $2,358,000 went into the land, runways, hangars, seaplane ramps, beacons & facilities for servicing visiting planes when Curtiss-Wright built North Beach in 1929. only schools, private flyers and taxis patronized the field. No line made it a terminus. In 1934 the City of New York agreed...