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While Howard Hughes's great ship was being tuned and stocked at Floyd Bennett Field fortnight ago (see above), a thin broth of a lad named Corrigan poked down out of the air at neighboring Roosevelt Field in a 1929 Curtiss-Robin monoplane with an old Wright J-6 motor that could turn up only 95 miles an hour. By modern standards the ship was a crate, but in it, with nothing to fly by but a compass, a bit of a map and the beam in his eye, 31-year-old Douglas P. Corrigan of Los Angeles...
...rapid succession. A five-billion franc defense loan, arranged by Finance Minister Paul Marchandeau, was oversubscribed a few hours after the lists opened to the public. An Air Ministry announcement revealed that France will begin her two-year plan of air force rearmament with the purchase of 100 fast Curtiss pursuit planes, ordered in the U. S. last week. And the general staff last week ordered the recruiting of an additional 60,000 native troops in Tunisia, thus bringing France's North African army to a total of 180,000: 1 20,000 natives, and 60,000 Frenchmen...
...runs in the first off Curtiss, who hasn't been right in recent games, started off the Northeastern tempest. After the Crimson had run up six tallies by the seventh inning to trail 7-6, the visitors one more went to work and scored twice in the seventh and once in the eighth...
...Grondahl 3b 3 0 0 0 2 0 Hoye rf 4 0 1 2 1 0 Soltz If 3 2 2 0 0 0 Weiner* x x x x x x Doyle c 2 1 0 1 1 0 Bacon c 1 1 0 2 0 0 Curtiss p x x x 0 0 0 Edinberg p 3 0 0 0 2 0 Prouty...
...base hit: Johns, Prouty, Base on balls: by Meehan 3, by Rook 6, by Curtiss 3, by Edinberg 1, Struck out; by Prouty 1. Hit by Pitcher: by Curtiss 1. Passed ball: McDonald...