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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tear Gas. Flying a fast Lockheed from McKeesport, Pa. to Providence, R. I. to deliver a load of tear gas bombs to National Guardsmen in the textile strike (see p. 22), General Manager Theodore Taney of Central Airlines crashed in the Tuscarora Mountains, was found dead in his half-opened parachute...
...organize Southern millworkers. The Danville, Va. strike in 1931 was also a failure. At Lawrence, Mass, in 1932, the Union's six-month struggle blocked wage cuts for woolen workers. A strike among silk workers at Pawtucket, R. I. in 1933 won better wages, a reduction of the machine load per employe. Last year Francis Gorman invaded the South once more to organize cotton textile workers in Alabama. There 13,000 men struck in mid-July, a prelude to the greater strike last week...
Early Sunday morning two barred and guarded railroad cars slipped out of Atlanta, carrying the first load of "incorrigible" criminals to bleak Alcatraz Island Prison in San Francisco Bay. Newshawks were very sure that at a window of one car they saw the round, grinning face of Gangster Alphonse Capone...
...airmen the performance was wildly exciting. Over a measured course of 311 mi., her motors throttled down to only 69% of their maximum 3,000 h.p., the 8-42 had flown four times non-stop at an average speed of 157.5 m.p.h., carrying the equivalent of her full load-capacity of 32 passengers, crew of five, 2,000 Ib. of mail and cargo...
With her gross weight of 19 tons and top speed of 192 m.p.h., the 8-42 will be the world's biggest and fastest airplane in regular over-water service. Last April in her first test-flights she broke two world's altitude-with-load records, and with her performance last week now holds all existing transport seaplane records. Following her acceptance by PAA last week she flew non-stop from Bridgeport to Miami (1,300 mi.) for shakedown cruises at the company's Dinner Key Base...