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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...range to Thun, thence over the 13,000-ft. Jungfrau to Bellinzona, the last lap over 11,000-ft. Scheerhorn Peak and back to Zurich. The German three-plane patrol made it in 58 min. 52.7 sec. of flying time and the Czechs, flying not quite up-to-date Avias were second in little over an hour. Their elapsed time, however, was less than that of the Germans. Meet crowds showed a tendency to cheer the Czechs, jeer the Germans...
Your readers should be told that the value of this service has been roughly estimated at more than $60,000,000 to date. . . . N. R. CRAWFORD Manager...
Everyone knows that the Whiffenpoof Song is a parody of Kipling's Gentlemen Rankers, whose refrain it uses almost intact. Not everyone knows that the score was written by an Amherst man, the late Tod Galloway, who put a lot of Kipling to music, or that the words date from the autumn of 1909 when cadaverous Meade Minnigerode, since famed as the author of The Son of Marie Antoinette, The Magnificent Comedy, and George Pomeroy composed them for the delectation of a drinking group formed the spring before and called the Whiffenpoofs. G. Schirmer, Inc. contest that they...
...Pittsburgh United matter, co-operation came to an end last March when the date of redemption rolled around and the company still made no move to redeem its preferred stock. Far from paying dividends, it had lost $63,879 in 1935, $89,257 in 1936. By March ist, though U. S. Steel common had risen from a 1936 low of $46 to around $113, Pittsburgh United's equity was still nearly $4,000,000 short of its original value of $16,000,000. Since Big Steel was expected to resume payments on its common within a year, Pittsburgh United...
...Fred Noonan, lost in mid-Pacific while flying round the world "for fun" (TIME, July 12, 19). While its commanders gritted their teeth and hoped fervently for no mishaps, 60 of the aircraft carrier Lexington'?, complement of 62 planes took the air near the point where the International Date Line crosses the Equator. Later the searching force was cut to 42 planes. One day the Lexingtons 1,500 sailors roasted under a fierce sun and the aviators smeared their faces with protective grease; another day, tropical squalls sent planes scurrying back to the ship. At week...