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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago, a new Northrop low-wing monoplane, built for the U. S. Army at a cost of $100,000, took off from a Los Angeles airport. Because it was expected to fly high above enemy guns at a superspeed of 325 m.p.h., revolutionizing offense tactics and giving the U. S. the finest pursuit plane in the world, the new fighter was shrouded in military secrecy, instructed not to fly out of sight of the airport. Nonetheless, Army Reserve Pilot Arthur H. Skaer roared away up the coast toward the Palos Verdes hills. Presently, when he did not return, officials...
Last week another new pursuit plane took off from Los Angeles on a test flight. This one was a heavily armored Vultee low-wing monoplane, built to carry 1,200 lb. of bombs as well as four machine guns. With a reported speed of 250 m.p.h., it, too, was being groomed with much secrecy for the U. S. Army. It was only 300 ft. off the ground on its second flight when the motor abruptly cut out. Faced with high-tension wires over the smooth field ahead, Pilot Thomas Van Stone tried to turn back to the airport. The heavy...
...interesting comparison with the German situation is found in the Olympic trials for the Los Angeles games when negroes were net permitted to participate in the semi-finals which were held in the South and the only colored entries qualified in Northern trials. There was no protest from any foreign delegation at that time, however...
Divorced. Dr. Richard Horace Hoffmann. Manhattan neurologist; by Janet Beecher, cinemactress (The President Vanishes, The Mighty Barnum); in Los Angeles. Separated from her husband for ten years, Miss Beecher told the judge she delayed the divorce so that her son, now 14, would "be old enough to know what was happening and also to indicate preference, if he cared, as to which parent he wished to remain with." Son Richard was awarded to his mother with the option of summering with his father...
...Los Angeles dawn, she climbed into her black & silver Lockheed Orion, lumbered into the air, sped to New York in 13 hr., 34 min., 5 sec. Mrs. Putnam's non-stop record, made in 1932, went down by 5 hr., 29 min. Miss Ingalls probably would have beaten the men's non-stop record of 13 hr., 27 min.† if her radio compass had not broken down near Columbus...