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...present arrangement enables a student to obtain a Class 1 license, which gives him the right to fly planes under 1,300 pounds. A Class 5 license includes anything above 25,000 pounds--the China Clipper, for example. Presumably a student in next year's course would graduate to Class 2 or better...
With $1,200 and a trip to China via "China Clipper" offered as prizes, an essay contest on the subject of "Our Stake in the Future of China" was announced yesterday. It is open to all university students...
Goodbye-the Clipper's wings are flapping...
...when Asahel Bush ("Asahel I"), a young (26) Massachusetts attorney and printer, had clapped a printing press into the hold of a Yankee clipper for the 15,000-mile voyage round the Horn, lit out himself by packet boat for the rich, raw, pioneer Oregon Territory. He founded the Oregon Statesman at Oregon City, later moved to Salem when it was made the Territorial capital, became State printer, by 1862 was rich enough to retire from the publishing business...
...White House, the White Book was described as sheer propaganda, to be taken not with one or two, but with three grains of salt. "With even more salt," echoed Mr. Bullitt, before leaving by Clipper for France. Said Count Potocki in Washington: "I have never had any conversations with Ambassador Bullitt on America's participation in the war." Said Secretary of State Hull: "I may say most emphatically that neither I nor any of my associates in the Department of State have ever heard of any such conversations as those alleged, nor do we give them the slightest credence...