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Natal-Dakar. Although the South Atlantic has been flown many times from east to west, the eastward route has yet to yield passage to an airplane. Last week Jean Mermoz, pilot for Aeropostale, and two companions took off from Natal, Brazil, flew 16 hours, landed 350 mi. short of Dakar, Africa with a leaky oil line. Flyers and mail were picked up by the despatch boat Phocée, but the seaplane had to be abandoned. Mermoz recently flew the first westbound mail from Senegal to Natal, pioneering a prospective Aeropostale service (TIME...
Less responsible organs of Fascist opinion than Il Popolo egged on the current Italo-French war scare by charging that sums voted by the French Parliament will be "diverted eastward" and spent as a "secret subsidy" on the Army of Jugo-slavia's Dictator-King Alexander, staunch, bantam ally of France...
Stolen Show. The cruisers, destroyers and big submarines V-1 and V-2 (which had saluted by diving when abreast of the reviewing ship) all sped to the southeastern horizon, the dreadnaughts turning eastward into battle line, to prepare for a mock engagement between the Fleet's light forces and its "backbone." Meantime, having sounded their little salute guns, the Saratoga and Lexington turned westward, into the wind. The Salt Lake City turned with them so that she ran between. On the 2½-acre plateau decks of the two huge mother ships waited 150 airplanes, with all motors...
...pressure area, fitful with Spring, drifted eastward across the land last week, suddenly squatted over northern Indiana. Down to earth raced many winds, flapping from their wings an enormous flutter of feathery snow. Forty-four hours later when the low pressure area was ready to move on again, the Midwest was blanketed beneath one of its worst snowfalls in recorded weather history...
...summer many a horse will feel the sharp thrust of a hypodermic needle; will be injected with meningitis bacilli. Thus horses will help in the development of a serum to fight a new strain of cerebrospinal meningitis which, originating among Chinese workers in California last year, is moving eastward across the country...