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...interesting possibility would be to leave Boston by the 3:00 o'clock plane for San Francisco, catch the Monday China Clipper to Manila. Charter a plane on Thursday to cover the short space to Singapore where British Imperial will take you to Bombay, where you may sightsee for several hours before catching the Dutch Airways plane arriving in Amsterdam the following Thursday...
...Indianapolis drove southward through a storm its wireless crackled. Lest President Agustin Justo of Argentina feel left out, Franklin Roosevelt, even before meeting him, hastened to invite him also to the U. S. Also a request went to Pan American-Grace Airways, that the 40-passenger Pan American Clipper be held at the U. S. President's disposal in case he, having found the fishing much better on land than at sea, decide to return home...
Aaron Kane was born on an island off Shelter Point, Cape Cod, a well-meaning, red-headed boy who grew up in the great days of clipper ships, was apprenticed to a sailmaker, ran away to sea, was shanghaied in Edinburgh, kicked and cuffed as a cabin boy back and forth across the Atlantic. He survived, studied navigation, became a mate and did a little kicking and cuffing on his own, got mixed up with rebels in Genoa and, under the spell of a revolutionary temptress, ran arms for Naples until he learned that his captain had also been swayed...
...circumnavigate the globe for The New York Times and the North American Newspaper Alliance, using only those means of transportation available to ordinary tourists. He timed his start so as to reach Manila to catch the first West to East passenger flight of the Pan-American Clipper service. Mr. Kieran did not fly the South China Sea in a special plane as did Mr. Ekins, nor did he fly the Pacific as a member of the crew before the line was opened for passenger service...
Last week the package was hurried by automobile from Beltsville to Washington, put aboard an Eastern Airliner bound for Miami, where it was transferred to the icebox of a Pan American Clipper leaving for Buenos Aires. Late this week, if no accident intervenes, the contents of the tubes were to be instilled in eight pedigreed Argentine cows. If the fertilizations take effect, the calves will be born late in the next Argentine autumn...