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	Aviation Heritage Golden Age Short Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was Walter T. Varney; however, who became the earliest and greatest proponent of the "Orion".
		During the big "shake-up" within the airline industry in 1930, Walter Varney resigned as president of the Varney Air Lines when it was acquired by United Air Lines that year.
		Varney's approach to the airline business was to be free of consolidated business contingencies and acquire the best, most comfortable, safest and speediest equipment available.
	www.aviation-heritage.com /eZine/Col08.htm (1189 words)

	Walter Varney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walter Varney is the founder of Varney Airlines, based in Boise, Idaho.
		Varney was well known for his California flying school and air-taxi service.
		Varney Airlines represented an aerial port with new jobs and notoriety from air freight company.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Varney (1043 words)

	General info about Boise
		Hewlett-Packard has a large complex in Boise which specializes in scanners and printers and is one of the largest employers in the area, second only to Micron.
		Varney Airlines, founded by Walter Varney was formed in Boise.
		The company is the root of present day United Airlines, which still serves the city.
	www.searchboise.com /city_info.html (1008 words)

	J. Walter Thompson USA, Inc.
		Walter Thompson lacked substantiation for these claims, and falsely claimed that competent and reliable studies or surveys supported the claims.
		J. Walter Thompson, which maintains its principal office in New York, New York, was the exclusive advertising agency for Jenny Craig, Inc. during the time period the challenged ads appeared, beginning in early 1992 and continuing until at least May of 1993.
		Walter Thompson relied on a clearly flawed study in making its deceptive claims, and it continued to make claims based on this flawed study even after it had received contradictory results from a more reliable study that it had commissioned.
	www.ftc.gov /opa/1995/07/jwalter.htm (555 words)

	United Airlines - Era 2: 1926-1933
		Entrepreneur Walter T. Varney launched his air mail operation April 6, 1926, marking the true beginning of commercial aviation in the United States.
		Because Varney was a predecessor of United, it also marked the birth of the airline.
		Pilot Leon Cuddeback's historic flight for Walter T. Varney's airline on April 6, 1926, was only the start of a chain of developments in aviation that electrified the United States from the mid-1920s through the mid-1930s.
	www.united.com /page/middlepage/0,6823,2287,00.html (362 words)

	Kenilworth, by Sir Walter Scott (chapter32)
		Varney, who had changed his splendid attire, and now waited on his patron in a very modest and plain undress, attended to do the honours of the Earl’s coucher.
		Varney officiously assisted his lord to bed, and placed a massive silver night-lamp, with a short sword, on a marble table which stood close by the head of the couch.
		Varney took a seat near the bed, but with his back towards his master, as if to intimate that he was not watching him, and quietly waited till Leicester himself led the way to the topic by which his mind was engrossed.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /s/scott/walter/kenilworth/chapter32.html (4290 words)

	Decendents Of Nancy A. Vance b. 1813.
		______________________________________________________________________________ (6) Rutha VARNEY (Ephraim VARNEY 5) (Martha Matilda "HATFIELD" VARNEY 4) (Nancy A. "VANCE" HATFIELD 3) (Elizabeth VANCE 2) (Abner VANCE 1) was born abt.
		______________________________________________________________________________ (5) Albert VARNEY (Martha Matilda "HATFIELD" VARNEY 4) (Nancy A. "VANCE" HATFIELD 3) (Elizabeth VANCE 2) (Abner VANCE 1) was born 1859 in Logan County WVa.
		______________________________________________________________________________ (5) Nancy VARNEY (Martha Matilda "HATFIELD" VARNEY 4) (Nancy A. "VANCE" HATFIELD 3) (Elizabeth VANCE 2) (Abner VANCE 1) was born 1862 in Logan County WVa.
	members.tripod.com /~TimothyV/index-228.html (7939 words)

	Kenilworth
		Not altogether convinced, the Queen orders Varney to produce Amy in that capacity during the projected revels at Leicester's castle of Kenilworth.
		Varney, who sees in Amy an obstacle to his own ambition, persuades his patron that she is having an affair with Tressilian, and the jealous Leicester orders him to put her to death.
		Varney is arrested and executed; the heart-broken Tressilian enlists on the Virginia expedition and dies an early death; Leicester regains his privileged position at court after a brief period of disgrace.
	www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk /works/novels/kenilw.html (679 words)

	Pilot Harold Buckner could not have been happier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		No one in Harold's family could convince the young pilot to choose another profession, avoid what he considered the promising new field of aviation, even though the chosen route included a dangerous succession of mountains, high desert landscape, deep canyons and sparsely-settled terrain.
		In January 1927 Varney pilot George Buck flew through sleet and ice so thick he unbuttoned his safety belt to see over the ice-clogged windshield.
		Varney officials from Boise immediately headed to La Grande, arriving late that night.
	www.airmailpioneers.org /Pilots/Buckner.htm (412 words)

	Kenilworth, by Sir Walter Scott (chapter8)
		This Varney is the protector and patron of Anthony Foster, who holds under him, and by his favour, some lease of yonder mansion and the park.
		Varney got a large grant of the lands of the Abbacy of Abingdon, and Cumnor Place amongst others, from his master, the Earl of Leicester.
		Varney dropped those airs of pretension and gallantry which had marked his former approaches; and Amy, on the other hand, seemed to renounce the ill-disguised disgust with which she had regarded them.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /s/scott/walter/kenilworth/chapter8.html (3565 words)

	Varney Airlines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Varney Airlines was an airline company that started service on April 6, 1926 as an air-mail carrier.
		Varney Airlines and National Air Transport eventually became the airline that is now called United Airlines.
		Varney soon added Salt Lake City and took on passengers and later merged with Boeing to form United Airlines, United started jet service to Boise on October 26, 1964 and is the only airline to serve Boise continuously since 1933.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Varney_Airlines (480 words)

	Amazon.com: Kenilworth: Books: Walter, Sir Scott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In this exciting novel, the legend of Amy Robsart and her secret marriage to the Earl of Leicester comes alive in a blend of historical fact and fanciful fiction.
		Walter Scott (1771-1832), born in Edinburgh, was the most famous and prestigious novelist of his age.
		Scott is magnificent in the portrayal of Amy as well as Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth is the crown of his characterisation.
	www.amazon.com /Kenilworth-Walter-Sir-Scott/dp/0708980287 (1575 words)

	Lofty milestone
		In 1925, a bill was passed allowing private contracts to bid for providing airmail service, said Richard Holt, a retired United Airlines mechanic and a trustee with the Franklin County Historical Society.
		Walter T. Varney, owner of Varney Air Lines, didn't have much competition for his bid to link the Northwest to the central transcontinental mail route, he said.
		In 1930, Varney Air Lines became a subsidiary of United Aircraft and Transport Corp., which ultimately became United Airlines.
	www.tri-cityherald.com /news/2001/0405/story5.html (738 words)

	History of Flight in the US
		After carefully studying the various mail routes, Walter T Varney, a flight school and air taxi service operator from San Francisco, concluded that CAM 5 was so uninviting that no one else would want it.
		Varney bought six small Swallow biplanes able to accommodate one pilot and 600 pounds of mail each.
		After one week, Walter Varney had to concede that the Swallows were underpowered.
	flatrock.org.nz /topics/flying/seventy_five_years.htm (4507 words)

	United: The golden years Air Classics - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Walter T. Varney, a flight school and air taxi operator, realized the coming importance of air mail and passenger transport and he put in a bid for the air mail route (CAM 5) that went from Pasco, Washington, through Boise, and finished at Elko, Nevada.
		Varney would go on to make a fortune, sell his operation to Bill Boeing, loose his fortune, and wind up driving a construction truck.
		Walter Beech and Clyde Cessna designed, constructed and delivered the prototype Travel Air 5000 to NAT for evaluation in just 38 days.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3901/is_200206/ai_n9147989 (801 words)

	Varney Family
		Some event took the Varney's from whom I descend, from England to Barbados, West Indies, in the 17th century.
		We do know that the children of William and Bridget Varney were all born there, but ended their lives in Massachussetts, in America.
		Her name in records, at time of marriage to Humphrey Varney, is Sarah Storer.
	home.earthlink.net /~herblst/varney_family.htm (1806 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Pasco celebrates first Air Mail delivery in the Columbia Basin on April 6, 1926. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A few minutes after loading on the mail, Cuddeback launched his plane, which was powered by a 150-hp Curtis C6 water-cooled engine with a top speed of 90 miles per hour. He flew for about four hours, landed in Boise, and there refueled and loaded on another 150 pounds of mail.
		Varney shut down the route for a month while the airline installed new 200-hp Wright Whirlwind J-4-B air-cooled radial engines to replace the outdated World War I surplus engines.
		Varney earned a reputation for reliable service with a minimum of delays and accidents.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=7444 (906 words)

	CLASSIC AIRLINE PRINTS-PAGE ONE
		From this austere beginning grew the major U.S. airlines of today with the Varney flight, in essence, being the origin of United Airlines.
		Varney Air Lines was the first and one of the largest users of Lloyd Stearman's excellent line of biplanes.
		The Varney Air Lines version of the C3B was powered by a 200 h.p., 9 cylinder, Wright J4.
	www.mindspring.com /~jdreed/airline1.htm (515 words)

	United Airlines
		In 2001 the company lost $2,137 million on revenues of $16,138 million and in 2002 the company was forced into bankruptcy protection.
		UAL originated in the air mail[?] service of Walter Varney[?], founded in 1926.
		In only four years the company included a number of airlines, aero manufacturing companies and several airports, it was also closely associated with the new firm of William Boeing[?].
	www.fastload.org /un/United_Airlines.html (505 words)

	United Airlines - Era 1: 1910-1925
		The Act made the carriage of mail by air a private operation under a system of competitive bidding.
		One of the successful bidders was Walter T Varney, who launched air mail service over a desolate stretch of terrain between Pasco, Wash., and Elko, Nev., on April 6, 1926.
		Because Varney was a predecessor of United, it also marked the birth of United Airlines.
	www.united.com /page/middlepage/0,6823,2281,00.html (383 words)

	CAM Contract Air Mail First Flights CAM-5
		Varney was founded in 1926 by Walter T. Varney.
		Varney Air Lines used New Swallow bi-planes with Curtiss engines for this initial April 6, 1926 air service.
		The New Swallow bi-planes were built by the Swallow Company which survived the dissolution of the E M Laird Aviation Company (partnership of Laird, Burke and Moellendick).
	www.aerodacious.com /ccCAM005.HTM (631 words)

	Alumni Sandstorm Archive ~ June, 2001
		Based on mail contracts let by the Postmaster General in 1929 United was awarded the northern transcontinental route, TWA the central and American Airlines (a former gaggle of small carriers in the south) got the southern route.
		Now whether Walter T. Varney flew passengers between Elko and Pasco was not stated by either source.
		I presented a key chain to one of Varney's grandchildren last year that all Continental employees received many years ago commemorating the fact that our first customer was mail.
	alumnisandstorm.com /htm2001/2001-06-Jun.htm (20462 words)

	AUBREY M. VARNEY 1927-2005
		AUBREY M. WATERVILLE -- Aubrey "Tubby" M. Varney, 78, of Winslow, died Saturday, May 21, 2005, surrounded by his family at Lakewood Manor after a long illness.
		Tubby was born in Pittsfield, a son of William and Mabel (Fairbrother) Varney.
		Aubrey was predeceased by a brother, Robert Varney, and a sister, Mabel Garland.
	morningsentinel.mainetoday.com /obits/stories/1646754.shtml (260 words)

	Idaho celebrates centennial of powered flight
		Walter Varney, the founder of Varney Airlines, which was based in Boise in the 1920s and later became United Airlines
		October 27, 1925 – Walter Varney was awarded the first airmail contract in the west by bidding on a route no one else wanted: between Pasco, Wash., Boise and Elko, Nev.
		April 6, 1926 –Varney launched airmail service; the Boise landing strip was located on the south side of the Boise River, where Boise State University now stands; Varney later merged with other companies to form United Airlines
	www.itd.idaho.gov /press/2003Press/121203.htm (782 words)

	Kenilworth - Walter Scott - Adobe Reader PDF eBook
		Amy refuses to be part of this complex drama, and the ploy thickens with the administrations of poisons and strangulation until finally Amy is murdered by being thrown down the stairs of Cumnor Place.
		Leicester indicts Varney as the culprit, and he is arrested and executed while Leicester (he is the engineer of all the secrecy and conspiracies from which this hideous deed resulted) is readmitted to Elizabeth's entourage after a brief interval of dishonor and recovers his position of favor.
		In this romantic melodrama Sir Walter Scott superbly reproduces the unconventional mix of self-confidence and profound apprehension ot the Elizabethan Age.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/120639-ebook.htm (914 words)

	National Postal Museum
		In the early years, carriers made as much as 95 percent of their revenues from carrying the mail on contract airmail routes, known as CAMs.
		The first five CAM routes were contracted in 1925 to Colonial Air Transport, Inc. (Boston to New York); Robertson Aircraft Corp. (Chicago to St. Louis); National Air Transport, Inc. (Chicago to Dallas); Western Air Express, Inc. (Salt Lake City to Los Angeles); and Walter T. Varney (Elko, Nevada, to Pasco, Washington).
		In 1930, Postmaster General Walter Brown pushed for legislation that would have another major impact on the development of commercial aviation.
	www.postalmuseum.si.edu /exhibits/2c2d_contract.html (250 words)

	William VARNEY, /Bridget KNIGHT, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Name: Thomas VARNEY, Born: ABT 1630 at: Married: at: Died: 04 DEC 1692 at: Spouses: Mary UNKNOWN, Abigail PROCTOR,
		Name: Walter VARNEY, Born: 20 JUL 1635 at: Ipswich, Essex, MA Married: at: Died: 09 DEC 1650 at: Ipswich, Essex, MA Spouses:
		Name: Rachel VARNEY, Born: ABT 1632 at: Ipswich, Essex, MA Married: 26 JUL 1652 at: Died: 15 FEB 1707 at: Gloucester, Essex, MA Spouses: Joseph LANGTON, William VINSON, Thomas COOK,
	www.frontiernet.net /~marypie/fam00897.html (228 words)

	Varney Speed Lines System - LAO - Lineas Aereas Occidentales - Varney Speed Lanes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Varney Air Service started operating from San Francisco (Alameda) to Los Angeles in January 1932.
		The service was discontinued in early 1933 to concentrate on a new route from Los Angeles to Mexico City.
		The route was abandoned in 1934 and the founder, Walter T. Varney, transferred his interest to the Southwest Division of Varney Speed Lines (the future Continental Airlines), set up to carry the mail between Pueblo and El Paso.
	www.timetableimages.com /ttimages/varney.htm (196 words)

	VARNEY family history and genealogy information .. Varney ancestry links
		OVERVIEW -- As this genealogical help and research area is a new part of our website, and is currently under development..
		genealogy software and family history research database for the Varney name will likely be included in the updates along with an automated form to submit data for Varney family history..
		posting surname and ancestry data for Varney items as well as allowing the public to search for Varney details will remain free of charge.
	www.museumstuff.com /zg.cgi?w=varney (192 words)

	UK Travel Information : Airline Companies
		China Airlines was established in Taipei with an initial capitalization of TWD400,000.
		Over 60 years ago, Walter T. Varney founded Continental airlines along with his partner Louis Mueller.
		The beginning of commercial air transportation started when Walter T Varney began an airmail service in 1926.
	www.insure121.com /travel-information.htm (746 words)

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