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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four hours by car, an hour and a half by plane from Hollywood, Agua Caliente is the most elaborate pleasure resort in North America. It was organized three years ago, largely by 34-year-old James Crofton who had previously been a racetrack barker at the squalid little border town of Tijuana, three miles farther...
President Araujo. whose British wife is the former Miss Dora Morton, seemed disinclined to listen to reason. Revolutionary troops chased him to Santa Ana on the Guatemalan border where he signed his resignation...
Hawks v. Wedell. Within a few hours of each other, Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks shot southward from Vancouver, B. C. and Pilot James Wedell rocketed northward from the airport at Agua Caliente, Mexico. Each was intent on breaking the border-to-border record of 7 hr. 48 min. set last June by Broker-Crusader James Goodwin Hall. Wedell even intended to turn about at Vancouver and chase after Hawks back to Mexico. He paused for fuel at Reno, zipped over Vancouver Airport in less than 6 hr., flew 100 mi. farther before he realized he had passed his goal. Turning...
...selection of vocal numbers. After these the University singers will render three English folksongs, "Gentle Johnny," "The Foggy Dew", and "Spanish Ladies", "Der Gang Gang zum Liebschen", by Brahms, and Choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado". Following another group of songs by Miss Vreeland, the Club will sing "Border Ballad" by William and excerpts from Faure's "Requiem...
Marked in red on a map of Alaska in the Alaskan Airways office at Fairbanks is a 200-mi. square in the extreme northeast section of the Territory along the Canadian border and the coast of the Arctic Ocean. Somewhere in that wilderness plods a herd of 2,400 reindeer, all that remain of a herd of 3,500. With seven Lapp herders they are on their way from the Seward Peninsula to east of the Mackenzie River in northern Canada. They set out two years ago when Lomen Reindeer Corp. contracted to deliver the herd to the Canadian Government...