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...more valuable run rom Washington to Buffalo, however, Pennsylvania-Central Air Lines felt obliged to offer to do the job for an infinitesimal .00008? a mile, though it will possibly cost as much as 30? a mile. The contracts for the other two new routes-Dayton-to-Chicago via Fort Wayne and Winslow, Ariz.-to-San Francisco-went to Transcontinental & Western Air for a mill a mile...
Into the ramshackle office of Banker George S. Nixon in tiny Winnemucca, Nev. around the turn of the century stalked a 6-ft. cowboy named George Wingfield. Not yet 21, Buckaroo Wingfield had just arrived from Arkansas via Oregon, had not a penny. He tossed a diamond ring on the desk, asked for a loan. "I'm not running a hock-shop!" snapped...
...from Port Washington, few minutes after the German plane had taxied to the ramp, droned the Pan American Clipper, off for England via Bermuda and the Azores. Having crossed the Atlantic by the northern route four times with precision, Captain Harold E. Gray and his pioneering crew were making the first test of the Southern route...
...from Port Washington three days later climbed the high-sided Imperial Airways flying boat Caledonia for her sixth Atlantic crossing via Newfoundland and Ireland. Including a stop at Montreal, she got to her base at Foynes, Ireland in 20 hr. 27 min. flying time, just as her sister ship Cambria was getting set to reverse...
...Manhattan publisher, left Norwood, Mass, with $15 and an ambition to "make his way" in the West. Week later, after his father had aroused the entire U. S., he turned up, penniless and hungry, in a Salt Lake City police station, was promptly packed off home via air. His conclusions: "Truck drivers are the friendliest people of all; they bought me a couple of meals and let me ride practically all the way. And one of them gave me-how do you say it?- four bits-fifty cents-for a shave and haircut. The rest of the people...