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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief of the Corps, officiated at a luncheon for oldtime pilots, the air industry and the press in the administration building at Wright Field. He pinned Distinguished Flying Crosses on four officers,† after General George H. Brett, chief of the Matériel Division, had introduced distinguished guests. Among the latter, the men who must build-their nation's wings up to world war strength in two years eyed particularly a chunky Congressman from Akron, Chairman Dow Harter of the aviation subgroup of the House Military Affairs Committee. For he was trying to help get the expansion program...
Records. Attachés from Germany and Italy sat among the foreign contingent directly in front of Chief Arnold as he dwelt upon the six new records casually set by the Corps during the week just past. For them he emphasized the fact that these marks had been made without recourse to "suped up" engines, synthetic fuels or "five-hour engines" (such as Nazis and Fascists use). Flying all one afternoon and night, the big four-motored Boeing "superfortress" (XB-15) carried a two-ton payload 3,107 miles averaging 166.32 m.p.h. No record existed for this weight and distance...
...nationwide Gallup poll showed that, since June, Paul V. McNutt had climbed from a tie for fifth into second place among Democratic choices for the Presidency (ex Franklin Roosevelt). The standings: Garner 46%, McNutt 13%, Hull and Farley 12%, Hopkins and Murphy...
DEATH DINES OUT-Theodora Du Bois -Houghton Mifflin ($2). Among a number of nice people summering at Jones Inlet near New York City, a surgeon-sleuth ferrets out a killer who uses poison at a dinner party. Merit: pleasant, painless and gossipy dialogue. Fault: a little too much dialogue about ladies' clothing...
...MURDER THAT HAD EVERYTHING-Hulbert Footner-Harper ($2). Among thinly disguised members of Manhattan's café society, Lee Mapin, a snuff-taking amateur, solves the murder of a glamor girl's gigolo fiancé. Merits: humor and action. Fault: not too plausible...