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...plane was the Bermuda Clipper, a new Sikorsky S-42B flying boat powered by four Hornet motors and flown by a crack crew of eight Pan American employes headed by Captain Harold E. Gray, veteran of the Pacific and South American runs. Trundling up from Pan American's temporary base at Port Washington, L. I. at 9:32 a. m., it skirted the coast to Atlantic City, then bored out over the ocean at 10,000 ft. above a fringe of clouds. With a 20-m.p.h. tail wind and guided by a direction finder at Bermuda...
Friends gave Illinois' Governor Henry Hornet a cigar store Indian. He had always wanted...
...impassable ruts in the new roads almost as quickly as they were built. Artillery could not unlimber or deploy. Tanks were jammed between boulders. Then from behind thorn bushes and through the mud walls of shepherd huts came the raking fire of Ethiopian snipers. Each one of these Ethiopian hornet's nests had to be wiped out-by infantrymen alone. For the time being the machine age had gone haywire...
...Among parties of the Left and Right fierce anti-Fascist and pro-Fascist epithets flew. Deputies rushed up from the provinces and buzzed feverishly in the lobbies of their Chamber, though it was not in session and Premier Pierre Laval would rather have butted his hard head into a hornet's nest than have permitted Parliament to meet. Electric in the air of Paris was a feeling that, if France is not to drift further and further to the Left, she must jog Right in the present crisis. That is, her own Fascists of the Croix de Feu, which...
...lead of the five other planes shot Turner, ''polishing pylons" with his usual wizardry. For nine out of the ten laps he apparently had the race won. Suddenly, near the finish, the crowd was stunned to see a thick black plume of smoke belch from his Hornet motor as an oil-line clogged. Out of the race dropped Favorite Turner, managing to land safely in his oil-spattered racer. Into the lead went steady Mister Mulligan to win in the slow time of 220.1 m.p.h. on the first occasion that one plane had ever captured both Bendix...