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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cool Competition. Pioneer in railway air-conditioning is Baltimore & Ohio. It has equipped all the cars of its 27-hr. Manhattan-St. Louis train with airconditioning, as a bid against the crack 22-hr, trains of New York Central and Pennsylvania over the same route...
...Gale's Class-A sloop, Malabar X: the annual race of the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, from Montauk Point, L. I., to Hamilton, Bermuda: in 3 days 3 hr. 42 min. 29 sec., with a time allowance of, 5 hr. 53 min. 41 sec. Clarence Kozlay of West Orange, N. J. was drowned when the largest boat in the race, James H. Ottley's schooner Adriana, caught fire and sank 80 miles off Montauk. Four days after the race's end, the U. S. Coast Guard began hunting for the missing...
Died. John Hunter, 26, one of the four brothers who set a world's airplane refueling endurance record of 553 hr. 41 min. 30 sec. in 1930; by decapitation; in Rosedale, Miss. Attempting to untie his amphibian plane from a dock, Flyer Hunter was struck by the propeller...
...Akron. For the fifth time Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl crossed the U. S. by airship.* In a 53-hr. flight he took the Navy's proud U. S. S. Akron with her crew of 82 from Sunnyvale, Calif, to Parris Island, S. C. (U. S. Marine Corps air station) for refuelling, thence to her home base at Lakehurst, N. J. An able writer, Commander Rosendahl found time to flash radio messages of more than routine value. Excerpts...
...sensible pleasure flying. "Hull coverage" (ground accident, fire, theft) costs 3% of the plane's value; public liability, $50 for the first $10,000; guest passenger liability, $40 for $10,000; property damage, $65 for $5,000. Personal accident insurance, available to members who have soloed 200 hr., costs $7 to $10 per thousand, is limited...