Word: douglases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newshawks, already titillated by a Douglas "mystery ship" at nearby Santa Monica (see col. 1), sensed in the windowless transport an even bigger mystery. The story got around that the plane would take off without a soul inside, fly straight to Honolulu by means of a "robot" pilot and directional...
Unfortunately, there are no broadcasting stations out in the Pacific. Director Vidal's Douglas was to determine: 1) whether land stations on both sides had sufficient range to make the Kruesi Compass practicable in transpacific flying; 2) whether ships' transmitters could be used in lieu of broadcasting stations...
Elated, Director Vidal went back to Washington, ordered the Douglas to make more experimental flights, go all the way to Honolulu.
GREEN LIGHT-Lloyd C. Douglas- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50).
Greensickness is defined as "an anaemic disease which mostly affects young women about the age of puberty and gives a pale or greenish tinge to the complexion." Present-day letters, which some doctors have diagnosed as convalescing from a long siege of bilious morbidity, is breaking out in occasional patches...