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...first time Brothers Fred and Algene ("Al") Key of Meridian, Miss, attempted to break the world's airplane refueling endurance record, a broken cylinder head forced them down after 123 hr. The second time, a storm balked them after 169 hr. On June 4 the two brothers, who operate a flying school at Meridian, went up for a third try in their Wright-powered Curtiss Robin monoplane Ole Miss...
...Time: 17 hr. 58 min.-2 min. ahead of schedule...
...Clipper reached Midway in 9 hr. 13 min., stayed there two days before returning to Honolulu. On Sand Island, largest of the three coral atolls of the Midway Group, a small village hummed where once had been little but sandy scrub, jungle, coral rock. Trees, imported from Hawaii by the advance construction crew on the steamer North Haven, gave the place a look of lush tropical elegance...
...Charles. They signed up promptly with NRA, got Blue Eagle No. 13 in the Philadelphia district. But when the Supreme Court shattered NRA last month the in employes of Mrs. Schlorer's, Inc. were informed that they were going back on the old wage & hour schedules-a 50-hr., 5½-day week with pay for the 85 factory girls down from $13 to $10 per week. The employes struck...
...last week four sea post clerks aboard the United States liner President Roosevelt kept a 24-hr, guard over the ship's vault. Inside it reposed the famed Jonker diamond, world's largest uncut gem and the largest privately owned diamond anywhere. Discovered by a South African farmer named Jonker last year (TIME, Jan. 29, 1934), the stone weighs 726 carats (about five ounces), is bigger than...