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Back in Los Angeles after a fortnight of fun in Hawaii was Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley. While bathing and basking in the sun there, he ran afoul Naval regulations by taking a cinema of the arrival of the Pan-American Clipper. Loyal Democrats paid $3 apiece for a raw fish and octopus banquet at which Boss Farley told them: "The United States is making reasonably steady strides back to prosperity. You can see it everywhere. You can take any index you please...
...eight men 9,000 ft. above in the gleaming Pan American Clipper, the exuberant specks on the beach were less interesting than the little lump of land they hopped on. It was Wake Island, an insignificant pinprick on the map since 1796 and an uninhabited U. S. possession since 1899. Now Wake Island had become vastly important as the third stepping-stone in Pan American Airways' long strides across the Pacific from San Francisco to Canton. Some 5,000 miles west of San Francisco, Wake consists of three low coral atolls, the largest but four miles long, surrounded...
...work dynamiting a passage through the reef, building houses, preparing for the comfort of future passengers to the Orient. Then the North Haven sailed off, leaving behind on Wake Island eight inhabitants. To salute these eight men and their work, which it was the first to use, the Clipper circled twice, then slid into the lagoon 8 hr. 8 min. after leaving Midway, 1,191 miles away...
Most modern aircraft use two kinds of brakes: wheel-brakes on the ground, and "air brakes" (wing flaps) to reduce flying speed. Last week a third kind of brake was being tested on Pan American Airways' big transoceanic Clipper Ships...
Almost as big as the Sikorsky and Martin transoceanic Clipper ships, the new Boeing is said to weigh 30,000 Ib. loaded, carry six tons of bombs, have a top-speed of 250 m.p.h., a ceiling of 25,000 ft., a range of 2,500 mi. without refueling. Actual performance figures were secret...