The Archive · 1936

Circling World in Seventeen Days

Journalist Making Tour Entirely by Air: Many

Connect ions Have Been Missed Globe traiting around the world by alr in the scant time of seventeen days, but held up by the slight Indeserepancles of various aeroplane companies, Dr. Bolivar (ure writer of the North Amer Newspaper. Alliance—a dicate—arrived In Shanghai "on July 9 in the s. President Jet-Terson, He is staying here until clipper ship will take him from Macao to San Francisco.

When he returns there he will charier a plane to Mneao for two pounds, fly' from Macao to San Francisco by clipper. His total trip. around the world by alr will cost his firm US, $3,388—ond it will all be done in seventeen days.~ He will be the first passenger to do the trip that time.

While fon his trip across the with Dr, Eckener he had

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