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...flyers are forever hopping & skipping about its sprawling domain on record-breaking distance flights. With small, slow, economical planes, the pilots achieve time records by steady plugging, frequent halts for refueling. Chief factors are the nerve and endurance of the flyer. Longest, toughest, favorite course is that from England via India to Australia. So long and so tough is it that Charles William Anderson Scott, after setting a new record last year, declared: "I wouldn't make the attempt again for a million pounds!" But last week Lieut. Scott recovered his record (snatched by Charles A. Butler last November...
...leaving Hollywood, Director Eisenstein. whose passport had expired, was given a ticket to Russia via Japan. He appealed to Reformer Upton Sinclair to get his passport extended, raise funds for him to make a picture in Mexico. In Mexico, he set about making a picture according to his own notions. As is his practice, he used natives instead of trained actors. He worked only on sunny days, drank beer on days when it rained? With no projection room in which to view "rushes" he used an immense amount of film-160.000 ft. The picture, not yet publicly released, is called...
...discussed interconnections with French Aeropostale for its mail delivered by boat across the South Atlantic from French Africa to Natal, Brazil on the Pan American System, unresting President Trippe flew last week to London to ponder a mail route (with Imperial Airways; from the U. S. to Europe via Bermuda and the Azores...
Gruff, bespectacled President Coburn had tied the sprawling transport line of the corporation into the closely knit system which is now American Airways Inc. He abandoned some unprofitable lines and added new routes until it was possible to fly from Montreal to Los Angeles via American Airways. Before he took office Avco had more than 80 subsidiaries (including schools, charter services, factories, sales companies). Before he left there were less than 20. His economies reduced a net operating loss of $2,464,000 for the first nine months of 1930, to $628,000 for the same period last year...
...American, turned it over to the U. S. Consul at Amsterdam. The papers proved to be the pilot's license, passport and permit of Parker ("Shorty") Cramer who was lost with Radioman Louis Oliver Pacquette last fall while flying a transatlantic survey from Detroit to Europe, via Greenland and Iceland, for Transamerican Airlines Corp. (TIME, Aug. 17). 2) While the consul was scanning the papers, the Icelandic Althing (Parliament) passed a bill giving Transamerican Airlines the right to build a seaplane base and radio station at Reykjavik, and a concession to operate oceanic mail & passenger services for 75 years...