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...west! You are young: 'Tell them you left us here by the last water 'Going up through the pass of the hills with the sun: 'Tell them that in the tight towns when you talk of us 'The west is dangerous for thoughtful men: 'Eastward is all sure: all as it ought to be: 'A man may know the will of God by the fences. . . .' Shamed, his men swashbuckle down to their jobs, fight their way over the mountain passes to the valley where the fabulous island-city of Montezuma...
...bounds'' (TIME. Nov. 30), Hinkler was out over the South Atlantic in his little 90-h. p. Puss Moth, alone as Lindbergh. Behind him lay the port of Natal; ahead of him a 1,600-mi. span to Africa which no airplane had yet flown eastward. In moonlight darkened by occasional squalls Pilot Hinkler flew 22 hr., sat down at the little colony of Bathhurst, British Gambia, with an hour's fuel in his tanks. He refuelled, flew on to Dakar. Why he undertook the hazardous flight, why he made his surprise flight from New York...
...condemn him for not at once setting his readers at ease. Nothing is more difficult than disentangling a reader from his own era and transporting him back to times gone before. One is compelled to praise the crescendo of appeal developed by Mr. Colby as he travels westward, eastward, southward, and finally Westward. Only by a genial perusal of dark pages and the vagaries of his own adventure in America could the author have found the American soul beneath the sectional variations which he defines so accurately. The American heart that is not contented asks...
...French Line's experiments began in 1928, a year before the North German Lloyd's. An amphibian would leave the He de France about 400 mi. from New York; on eastward voyages, off the Scilly Islands to land on Le Bourget. For sake of economy no flights were made this season...
...morning, nearly 28 hr. ahead of the liner. It was the first time that transatlantic mail had beaten its steamer into port by a full day. Ordinarily the margin is about 18 hr. North German Lloyd officials declared the long distance experiment would be repeated whenever weather permits. On eastward voyages the plane leaves the steamer 300 or 400 mi. out of Southampton, flies ahead to Southampton. Rotterdam, Cologne. Flights are attempted only between late April and October and then only when weather is good (about 90% of the time). If storms or fog occur after the takeoff, the master...