Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frigid Test. For 6,000 miles, 20 Army planes of the 1st Pursuit Group at Selfridge Field, Mich., will wing a bleak way to Seattle and back again, this week and next, to test the winter endurance of personnel, of new high-powered planes. The planes use skis instead of wheels on landing gear...
...Moulmein Pagoda. A steady drone of power changed suddenly to a stutter of uncertainty, then stopped. Joseph Marie Le Brix and M. Rossi on a flight from Paris to Saigon, Cochin-China, last week, scrambled to undo safety belts, climbed over their cockpit's edge and stepped, parachutes unfolding, into the black darkness over the mountains near Moulmein, Burma. The old Moulmein pagoda heard the shriek of wind against wires as the Frenchmen's plane roared to the ground with no one in control. The plane was demolished, mail was lost, Rossi fractured his pelvic bone, the hopes...
...Last week also Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Eielson's close friend, asked Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, "the man I know best in the Cabinet," somehow to ask the Soviets to put their Siberian representatives on the hunt, particularly those at the Wrangel Island meteorological station and on the ships Lipke and Stavropol. It was a ticklish request, for the U. S. and Russia have no diplomatic relations. Secretary Wilbur immediately asked the Soviet Government for aid, through its Washington information bureau. He also sent telegrams to Territorial Governor George Alexander Parks at Juneau, urging...
...transport operators boost air travel at this season, when traffic is desperately light and expensive planes must keep schedules? Universal Aviation Corp. last week sought to kill the trouble by offering $250 mileage books from which Universal's air conductors will tear fares exactly equal to railroad fare plus Pullman charges between any two points served. Thus: Kansas City to Chicago regular air rate is $45.75; the railroad-pullman rate, and hence the Universal mileage scrip rate, $21.03. Anyone can buy and use the books -doctor, lawyer, Indian chief...
...competitive U. S. racers for South American air transportation are Pan-American Airways and New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Line. The latter, of which onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce William Patterson MacCracken is now board chairman, last week had most of its planes and pilots at their stations alert to start their service between Manhattan and Buenos Aires...