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...Indian Archipelago toward Australia's New Guinea and North Australia. In the shallow waters of the Coral Sea along the Great Barrier Reef, 1,000 mi. from home, they find what they want but it is in Australian waters. Long since, the Australian Government has protested to Tokyo via London against their poaching. But Japan had not the heart to discourage such energetic citizens. Last week Australia got ready a fleet of fast motorboat patrols to catch the heavy-engined sampans from the north...
...citizens a lot of puzzled thinking, about the sudden rise of Errett Lobban Cord to potential dominance on the airmail map. New Map. On General Farley's new airmail map (see above), with its four transcontinental routes instead of three, the new northern one extends from Newark via Buffalo to Chicago, thence westward to Seattle through Fargo, Billings, Great Falls and Spokane. The Newark-Chicago section is now operated with passengers by American Airways (---). The western section has recently been opened to passengers by Northwest Airways...
Next down the map is the great transcontinental route of United Air Lines (∎o∎o∎o∎o∎), from Newark to San Francisco via Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City. Other major routes flown by United and for which new contracts are to be let include the West Coast run from Seattle to San Diego, the Salt Lake City-Spokane "feeder" line and an important route from Chicago to Fort Worth via Kansas City. Only old United route not to get a new con tract is the Tulsa-Watertown feeder line
Next down the map is the "middle"' transcontinental route developed by Transcontinental & Wrestern Air ( ················), stretching from Newark to Los Angeles via Philadelphia, Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Albuquerque. This, the "Lindbergh" line, is the shortest route from coast to coast. Connecting the United and TWA transcontinental routes in two places are Western Air Express routes, one from Cheyenne to Albuquerque and the other from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles ( ). On the former route, a new mail contract will be awarded only...
...transport business will be torn away from the pioneer operators . . . and put into the hands of speculators." President Richard W. Robbins of TWA growled: "Postmaster General Farley has extended an open invitation for all the crapshooters of the vintage of 1929. . . ." It is fact that Franklin D. Roosevelt flew via American Airways to Chicago to accept his nomination (paying for ten tickets); that Mrs. Roosevelt used American Airways on her western trip last year, and Postmaster General Farley on his Texas junket to "rediscover" Vice President Garner; that the Post Office Department has been willing to hold up a mail...