This week that intrepid transatlantic exhibitionist, Crooner Harry Richman, and his pilot. Dick Merrill, headed back across the ocean from England to the U. S., ran out of gas over Newfoundland, plopped into a bog with slight damages to plane and flyers. Few days before, two really important transatlantic flights had been accomplished with much more efficiency and much less ballyhoo by Germany's Lufthansa.
In 1929 Germany's No. 1 airline started catapulting ship-to-shore airplanes from the Bremen and Europa. Since February 1934, Lufthansa has been running a regular weekly airplane mail service...
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