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Great was the fretting of U. S. airlines in 1932. Having coasted through three years of Depression with old planes, they were in dire need of new equipment, knew of none available that was satisfactory. Into this breach jumped young Donald Wills Douglas with a set of radical aeronautical ideas which he persuaded Transcontinental & Western Air to back. Out of that collaboration rose the DC-1, a 9-ton, twin-motored, low-wing monoplane which revolutionized air transport the world over. The first commercial transport plane the 12-year-old Douglas Aircraft Co. had ever built, it and the improved...
...shores of southernmost Lake Rudolf on the British Kenya border. This proved not true. Last week in his original fortress-prison, Gara Mulata, Lij Yasu died, "of paralysis," read the announcement, "brought on by his vices.'' His body was piled on a motor truck, jolted to Dire Dawa, chuffed by train to Addis Ababa. In a graveyard 100 mi. to the north of the city Lij Yasu was buried beside his father. The only mourner was Amba Hanna, the aged priest who had been handcuffed to Lij Yasu for nine years. ¶ From the southern front came...
...cable from France last week that you thought the franc about to go off gold was to risk being deported under Premier Pierre Laval's new and drastic decrees for defense of the franc. Into Paris mailboxes vexed correspondents popped dire franc predictions. These, unopened, safely reached London, Brussels, Amsterdam. Everyone knew anyhow that gold was again in flight from France in the nearest thing to panic since last spring. Three successive uppings by the Bank of France of its discount rate failed to halt the flow. Instead it quickened. The radical parties opposing M. Laval redoubled what they...
...most expensive flops in journalistic and newsreel history. . . . The Ethiopians have an unmatched talent for procrastination-they dislike doing anything today which possibly can be put off. "The result has been that a hundred or more correspondents and camera men are gnawing their fingernails at Addis Ababa, Harar and Dire Dawa knowing less about the fighting they are supposed to be covering than the newspaper reader in New York who, at least, has prompt news from the Italian side. . . . "Correspondents have little hope that the postponed journey to Dessye with Emperor Haile Selassie will be more colorful than a highly...
...laborers worked stripped to the waist. One group carried stones on their heads as their slave forefathers did in the days of Solomon, piling rubble along the railroad at Dire Dawa for possible necessary emergency repairs...