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Usually accurate, well-informed, TIME erred July 11, p. 28, under the heading Aeronautics. Says TIME: ''No one last week could read the Los Angeles' future. . . . Her crew will doubtless be assigned to the U. S. S. Alacon, the metal framework of which was completed last week in the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock in Akron, Ohio, while a delegation from Macon, Ga., waved flags. . . ." As a member of the Macon delegation in Akron on this occasion, I can say without reservation that no flags were waved. Only a ribbon inscribed, modestly enough, "MACON. In The Heart Of Georgia...
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