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...year, when Pan American Airways started carrying passengers across the Pacific, Reporters Herbert Ekins and Leo Kieran circled the globe on commercial aires. Soon after, Pan American's President Juan Terry Trippe and a party of friends also flew around the world on commercial lines. Last week, Aviatrix Amelia Earhart Putnam took off from Oakland "to establish the feasibility of circling the globe by commercial air travel" and "to determine just how human beings react under strain and fatigue." The plane was the $80,000 Lockheed Electra bought and outfitted for her by publicity wise Purdue University...
After almost 16 hours, the twin-motored monoplane slid down at Hawaii with a new record for the jump. Next day, mechanics achieved a flurry of headlines by discovering "a potential disaster threat" in faulty lubrication of the propeller bearings. That fixed Flyer Amelia climbed aboard with two of her crew to take off for the 1,940 mi. hop to Howland Island. Down the ong concrete runway of Luke Field the ship shot at 60 m.p.h. Suddenly the left tire blew out. Lurching, the plane rumpled its landing gear, careened 1,000 ft.. on its bottom...
...Amelia Earhart is ten years behind her time; in 1927 flights like her round-the-equator trip were almost weekly events. With the same resounding publicity and almost identical headlines a great flock of aircraft within two or three summers attempted the Pacific and the Atlantic. Though few of these gamblers flew solely to further aviation and a majority were killed trying, the effect of the transoceanic stunt flights was to boom aviation's popularity and technical progress. No matter how sporting her plans are, it is a fair question to ask what good Miss Earhart is achieving...
...judges were a curious assortment: Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Amelia Earhart, Stratospherist Major Albert William Stevens, George Henry High of the Royal Photographic Society, Editor Kenneth Wilson Williams of Eastman Kodak trade publications. To Nowell Ward of Chicago, for a picture of a handsome little boy drowsing over a book while a sort of dream picture of dueling pirates appeared over his shoulder, they finally awarded first prize of $1,000. plus the special $500 prize in the division of children's por traits...
...more satisfied are most teachers, whose National Education Association has consistently deplored the absence of teachers on the NYA Advisory Board, now staffed with such lay figures as Glenn Cunningham, Amelia Earhart and Owen D. Young. Bitter because the New Deal has rejected NEA's demands for a Federal annuity to assist U. S. schools lamed by Depression, NEA's Secretary Willard Givens cracked at NYA as follows: "While a few youngsters are being taught harmonica playing, fancy lariat throwing and boondoggling, some hundreds of thousands of less fortunate ones throughout the U. S. are being denied...