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...skilled laborer got $60 per month, worked just long enough to earn it at prevailing (i. e. union) wages. Under the new WPA setup, to which New York City relief jobs were shifted last week, the tradesman gets up to $93.50 per month, but must work at least 120 hr. for it. That means an hourly wage well below the prevailing rate...
...bystander said something about a possible funeral. ''You be quiet!" she snapped, blue eyes blazing. Tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) Miss Ingalls next became angry over an airport ruling that she had to use an unfamiliar runway. Finally she took off, headed west, reached Burbank in 18 hr...
...slim, birdlike little woman with dark bobbed hair, she is reticent, independent, has few close friends. She has logged some 1,500 hr., never crashed, believes firmly in astrology...
...June 27 after 23 days aloft they broke the official record of 553½ hr. set by Brothers John & Kenneth Hunter at Chicago five years ago, some 25,000 people jammed Meridian Municipal Airport to cheer them on. In carnival spirit, the crowd danced at the airport all night, whooped at the announcement that the field would henceforth be known as Key Airport. Ablaze with civic pride, the Chamber of Commerce promised the Brothers Key $100 for each & every day they stayed aloft after breaking the record, and the Junior Chamber of Commerce presented their children with Shetland ponies...
Still droning on, Ole Miss eclipsed the record of 647 hr. set by Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine at St. Louis in 1930-unofficial because their instruments failed to satisfy the National Aeronautical Association. When the Colonels Key finally landed July 1 with two records in the bag, they had made some 75 refueling contacts, flown more than...