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Item 3-A cigaret ad with a gal fishing, for the camera, with a fly rod, also reeling in a fish...
...night last week Mexican soldiers buzzed over the bed of a dry lake, 7,500 ft. above the sea, smoothed out a homemade runway three miles long, marked it with flags. In the dim glare of automobile headlights and a young moon, a red monoplane was loaded with 470 gal. of gasoline, a batch of letters with "Amelia Earhart" stamps on them, six hard-boiled eggs, four sandwiches, thermos bottles of water, cocoa, tins of tomato juice...
...Army flyers (Maitland & Hegenberger) had made the first crossing in a landplane in 25 hr. 50 min. The Clipper covered the 2,410 mi. in 17 hr. 45 min. with a payload of 8,000 letters which cost senders $1.09 each, and still had enough of its 3,000 gal. of gasoline left to fly another 1,000 mi. without difficulty...
Grandsons purports to be the story, as told to Adamic himself, of three third-generation U. S.-Slovenes from Carniola. Peter Gale (whose immigrant grandfather was called Galé) shared a pup-tent with Adamic in the A. E. F. until he was wounded and gassed. Nine years after the War Adamic met Peter again, in Los Angeles. Peter was apparently a typical drifter, nervous, unsettled, unhappy, a newspaperman who never stayed in one place more than a few months. Gradually he got Peter's story out of him. Peter's brother, Andy, was the "front...
...Montana, a stump-puller on which duty had not been paid. Alcohol Tax agents, most of whom have worked without pay since Dec. because of a patronage-greedy deficiency bill amendment wangled by Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, had seized 900 stills, 119 automobiles and 40,204 gal. of bootleg liquor, made 1,583 arrests. Coast Guard cutters were trailing six rum-running ships. Enough evidence had been gathered to hold more than 500 big-time criminals for income tax evasion. Only one Federal agent, in Leesville, Va., had been seriously wounded. Only one "leak" had been discovered...