80 Miracles Ahead! 



going to come into their own as great shipping centers and 1 

 can vision the day when America will have a great port in 

 Alaska which will supersede in importance our present great 

 shipping centers. It could be the New York of tomorrow." 



$10,000,000 Seadromes 



C. Bedell Monro, president of Pennsylvania Central Air- 

 lines, would not use long-range super-Clippers for trans- 

 Atlantic service. He contends that high-speed passenger travel 

 across the Atlantic would be made safer and less expensive 

 by the building of a "seadrome" route between the United 

 States and Great Britain. Penn Central has filed with the CAB 

 an application to fly the route, in which three steel floating 

 islands would be spaced at eight hundred-mile intervals across 

 the Atlantic. The three "man-made islands" would each cost 

 ten million dollars. 



Mr. Monro asserts that the short eight hundred-mile hop 

 between the seadromes means vastly increased passenger and 

 cargo-carrying capacity because less gasoline would have to 

 be carried. Two- or four-engined planes carrying forty-two 

 to seventy-two passengers could be used. Only the same 

 amount of gasoline would be required that now is used in 

 making jumps of equal length overland. Passenger rates per 

 mile, therefore, would be about the same. 



The seadrome was invented by Edward R. Armstrong, a 

 construction engineer of Philadelphia. Each "island" would 

 stand seventy feet above sea level, and floats one hundred and 

 sixty feet beneath the water would keep the seadrome "as 

 steady as the mainland itself," said Mr. Armstrong. Each sea- 

 drome, weighing sixty-four thousand tons, would have com- 

 plete airport and refueling facilities and a hotel where a 

 traveler could stay if he wanted to wait for a later plane. 



The Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company maintains that 



