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Douglas Fairbanks paid $66.25 fare for himself, wife, and three friends to fly from Washington to New York, then paid an additional $66.25 for the remaining five seats so his party would not have to share the cabin with strangers.
In Brooklyn, Rex R. Fairbanks, 29, was hailed by a young woman in a roadster, asked the way to Park Plaza. The young woman also invited him for a ride, emphasized the invitation with a pistol. In Prospect Park she made Rex R. Fairbanks strip to his underclothes, get out...
To all the emergencies President Hoover has had to meet this year, another was added last week. After two years of drought, North American waterfowl were distantly threatened with extermination. The President met this emergency with a proclamation reducing the shooting season on ducks, geese, brant and coot from three...
Seattle-Tokyo. The white Lockheed monoplane Fort Worth, driven back by weather last month in an attempt to fly from Seattle to Tokyo by refuelling from a "nurse" plane (TIME, July 20), got away to a second start. Pilots Reginald L. Robbins & Harry S. Jones took fuel over Fairbanks, lost...
There was beautiful precision to the first stage of the flight. The Fort Worth climbed out of Seattle's Boeing Field before dawn, kept rendezvous with her trimotored Ford refuel plane over Fairbanks that evening only 30 min. behind time. Throttled down to comparatively slow speeds the planes flew...