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...great companies ushered in the flying season last week with important new schedules. Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. swung from its transcontinental line at Columbus up to Chicago, making an eight-hour service between New York and Chicago to compete with National Air Transport (which flies via Cleveland). The Chicago-Columbus route was operated by Continental Airways, until that company went out of business last month. T. & W. A. swiftly grabbed up the strategic opening. (Errett Lobban Cord's new Century Airlines, radiating out of Chicago, was said to have turned a covetous eye upon the Columbus route.) The other...
Chicago-Dallas: Leave 10:15 am. via National Air Transport, arrive Dallas 8 :18 p.m. Leave Dallas 9:30 a.m., arrive Chicago 6:25 p.m. Chicago-San Francisco (typical of three schedules): Leave 4:30 p.m. by Boeing Air Transport, arrive San Francisco (Oakland Municipal Airport) 1:18 p.m. next day. Leave San Francisco 12:45 p.m., arrive Chicago 11:09 a.m.-next...
Pilot Yoshihara proposed to make 20 stops en route to San Francisco, via Petropavlovsk, Alberta; the Aleutian Islands; Seward, Alaska; Vancouver. He carries no radio, will fly far off the regular track of ocean vessels. His worst hazard: Fogs, while he tries to locate his re-fuelling stations along the 6,268 mi. route to San Francisco. A forced landing in the bergstrewn Bering Sea would allow little hope of survival. Smiling little Seiji expected to complete his flight late this month...
...weakly into the infield or to pole easy pop flies to the outfield. While at times the Crimson hurler seemed distinctly without control, throwing wide of the plate and alternately forcing the batters to duck hastily, each time he seemed about to load the bases for New Hampshire via the base on balls route the visitors failed to make any timely bingles, allowing Page to retire the side on easy outs without scoring...
...clean home newspapers. Hence, Rogers-readers were mildly astonished one day last week to find in his "letter to the editor" a comment which might have passed unnoticed in scores of other colyums but which, for Rogers, verged on the "raw." Returning from Managua to the U. S. via Venezuela by plane, Will Rogers wrote...