. Bell telephone magazine . inental & WesternAir, Inc., estabhshed a similar servicebetween New York and Los flying time for the initial tripswas twenty-four hours and forty-twominutes eastward and twenty-eight hours and forty-three minutes west-ward. According to a recent table,the quickest flying time for a sched-uled flight from New York to SanFrancisco is seventeen hours and fifty-six minutes; from New York to LosAngeles, fifteen hours and eightminutes. WITH this brief review of the historyof the air mail, our consideration ofthose instrumentalities of communica-tion which depe
. Bell telephone magazine . inental & WesternAir, Inc., estabhshed a similar servicebetween New York and Los flying time for the initial tripswas twenty-four hours and forty-twominutes eastward and twenty-eight hours and forty-three minutes west-ward. According to a recent table,the quickest flying time for a sched-uled flight from New York to SanFrancisco is seventeen hours and fifty-six minutes; from New York to LosAngeles, fifteen hours and eightminutes. WITH this brief review of the historyof the air mail, our consideration ofthose instrumentalities of communica-tion which depend on the physicaltransportation of written messagescomes to an end. The third and con-cluding portion of this study of theplace which transcontinental teleph-ony holds in the over-all picture ofcommunication across the Americancontinent will be devoted to thoseproducts of mans inventive facultywhich, in one form or another, haveemployed electricity for the transmis-sion of intelligence over distances. {To be concluded). FOR THE RECORD t^?i T. K. SMITH ELECTED AN A. T. & T. DIRECTOR At the meeting of the Board of Di-rectors of the American Telephone andTelegraph Company on October 16, TomK. Smith was elected to fill the vacancycaused by the death of David F. Houstonon September 2. Mr. Smith is Presidentof the Boatmens National Bank of St. Louis, and has been a Director of theSouthwestern Bell Telephone Houston had been a Director since1924, He became President of the BellTelephone Securities Company in 1921,and from 1925 to 1927 was a Vice Presi-dent of the A. T. and T. Company. t<^ DR. BUCKLEY SUCCEEDS DR. JEWETT AS PRESIDENTOF THE BELL LABORATORIES On October 1 Dr. F. B. Jewett, VicePresident of the American Telephone andTelegraph Company in charge of re-search, resigned as President of the BellTelephone Laboratories, becoming Chair-man of the Board of Directors. Dr. Buckley, Executive Vice President ofthe Laboratories, succeeds Dr. Jewett asPresident. The
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