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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passenger run Central Airlines put as co-pilot Helen Richey of Pittsburgh, co-holder (with the late Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis) of the world's refueling endurance flight record for women (9 days 21 hr. 42 min.). Spinster Richey, 25, carried seven passengers, a big load of mail & express, on her first transport flight...
...minutes before, Canadian National's crack Maple Leaf express (Chicago-Montreal) had shot through an open switch at a-mile-a-minute, knifed its way through two cars of a holiday excursion train, killed 15, injured 32. The excursion train had been stalled on a siding with engine trouble. A jittery brakeman, seeing the approaching headlight of the Maple Leaf, had lost his head, switched the flyer off the main line onto the siding...
Double-Header. Delayed two hours by the crush of holiday travel, pack-jammed with mail & passengers, including onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker. New York Central's fast Midnight Express (Columbus-Cleveland) was running with double-header locomotives near Delaware, Ohio when it shot out of a cut-off junction, just in time to catch the Eastern Mail on the main line. It took a wrecking crew with blow torches ten hours to get Engineer F. E. Springer's body out of the overturned second locomotive of the Mid night Express...
...London Naval Parleys were called for the express purpose of limiting naval armaments, and, by that method, to attain a certain measure of world security. A brief review of the results of the parleys will show that, Japan demanding equality, the United States and Britain standing stone-wall against such a demand in favor of the old 5-5-3 ratio, not even a start was made in the way of co-operative limitation and the conference adjourned a failure. This failure the Americans attributed to the Japanese; the Japanese, on the other hand, charge it to the Americans...
...however, the English objections have been withdrawn, probably because Italian expansion is considered less dangerous than French. It is also apparent that the Quai d'Orsay now feels that Abyssinia is of less importance than central Europe. When M. Laval calls upon Signor Mussolini this week, he will probably express his gratitude for support against German pretensions by allowing the Roman government complete freedom in Africa...