AERONAUTICS: E. A. T.

The businessmen who are laying out the nation's passenger airlines have not yet devised any rite for the opening of a new line comparable to the railroad rite of Driving the Golden Spike.∙At the opening last week of one more new artery of air travel—Eastern Air Transport's line between Atlanta and New York∙—one spike-driver, had there been a spike to drive, would have been brusque, bulky Capt. Thomas Bartwell Doe, U. S. A. retired, famed West Point footballer, E. A. T.'s president. And another would have been tall, angular, pipe-smoking Frederic Gallup...

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