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Spurning lifeboat and life-preservers. Lieutenant Ulm and two companions last week climbed aboard Stella Australis, took off from Oakland on the 2,400-mi. water hop to Honolulu. Nineteen hours later, off-course and lost, the plane's radio crackled out the dread letters PAN, emergency call of the air. Half hour later, fuel exhausted. Lieutenant Ulm landed on the water, sent out a frantic SOS.* Stella Australis could float for 48 hours in a calm sea. But the Pacific became rough and after 48 hours no trace of the Ulm plane had been found by 34 Army & Navy...
...dishes. Any departure from the set regulations brings sharp rebuke from the waitress "captains"--grim females who roam the floor constantly searching for any sign of relaxation or happiness, and pounce with undisguised delight upon offenders. At breakfast the waiters often stand for thirty minutes without stirring, while a dread silence fills the dining-room and the captains prowl vigilantly, hopeful of detecting an unnatural movement or some strangled whisper...
...life could be considered safe, the major was photographed on his motorcycle as a sort of Mussolini of Motoring. He decreed barber-striped safety islands and chevron-striped crossing lanes. In order to restore to London what he called "the priceless boon of sleep" he issued a dread ukase that no horn may be sounded between 1.1:30 p. m. and 7 a. m., another compelling horns to be sounded in certain specified emergencies. Jail sentences caused Punch to cartoon a motorists' prison for hornblowers and non-horn-blowers (see cut). Other Punch cartoons depicted the predicament...
Drifting foully across nearly every South American capital, the dread fumes of scandal left by the U. S. Senate's munitions inquiry settled most heavily last week on Argentina's Buenos Aires. Frantically officers of Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. cabled the city of Good Air that nothing was ever said to justify an implication that commissions had been offered to Argentinians or accepted by them...
After convincing the director of the Pastcur Institute in Tunis of the efficacy of the vaccine,and gaining the permission of the governor of West Africa, 3,000 whites were successfully inoculated against the dread yellow fever. The Pasteur Institute of Paris is being urged to begin production of the new vaccine...