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...Bernt Balchen, Miss Earhart became not only the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic but also she set a speed record from Harbor Grace of 14 hr. 56 min. Advance reports of good weather she found "100% wrong." Ice on the wings forced her down into rain, fog and gusty squalls, perilously close to the water. Her altimeter failed. A broken exhaust ring spurted flame. Gasoline from a leaky gauge dripped down her neck. But still she flew low because "I'd rather drown than burn up." Pushed north by beam winds she met the shore...
...huge circle about the mooring mast at Camp Kearney, near San Diego, Calif., ten thousand people assembled one morning last week to watch the U. S. S. Akron dock for refueling after a turbulent transcontinental passage. Poking through a gradually lifting fog, the great ship dipped slowly three times, three times was whisked up by rising strata of warm air before the ground crews could grab the spider lines from rings on two dangling cables. The fourth time the crowd cheered as the crew caught hold, started to tug the Akron's tossing silver nose toward the stub mast...
...accidents, then an explosion in the mine. Danny helps to haul the cooked bodies out. Horrified, he wanders about the streets in a daze, realizing what a life it is to which, for hunger's sake, he is doomed. Above his boy's head, above the sooty fog, shine out the stars; but these he cannot eat, and barely...
...been a cold, raw day in London, with slow rain and eddying winds. Towards nightfall the rain stopped and wisps of fog trailed up off the Thames to settle over the city. St. Paul's rolled up in the distance, the Bridge stood like ghostly battlements, and the finger of St. Martin's in the Fields was an old woman in an old torn veil. It was quiet end ancient and very...
...first time a U. S. Secretary of State called on the Secretary General of the League of Nations last week, but this historic coming of the Mountain to Mohammed was shrouded in a fog of qualifications and quibbles...