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Hispaniola. Three hundred years ago only a madman would have suggested that the little Dutch trading post at the mouth of the Hudson would ever be more important than the city of Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo in 1630 was still the capital and nerve centre of the declining Spanish Empire in the New World. Dominicans are prouder than Mexicans of their Spanish blood. Actually over half the population is Mulatto. They pay no taxes. The government struggles along on a 60% tariff on all imports collected for it by a U. S. customs agent, William E. Pullman. Sugar cane, coffee...
Fierro, the Sane. Impetuous young Emilio Carranza crashed to death in a New Jersey storm because he was in a hurry to fly back to his bride in Mexico City (TIME, July 23. 1928). Col. Pablo Sidar, "The Madman," laughed at bad weather reports and fell into the Caribbean in an attempted flight from Mexico to Buenos Aires (TIME, May 19). Last week Col. Roberto Fierro, cool, cautious, conservative, after days of patient preparation, took off from Roosevelt Field, L. I. and 16 hr. 35 min. later landed on Valbuena Field, Mexico City-first non-stop flight from New York...
...Alexandria. History's magnificent madman, Alexander of Macedonia, some 2253 years ago engaged in a classically long and hard drinking bout. After many days the quantity of iced, fermented honey that passed down his gullet weakened him, killed him. Expiring in Babylon, a stopping-off point on his insane meandering path about the earth, he left no trace of his tomb...
...years ago Mexico's aviation idol, the late Capt. Emilio Carranza, laughed at bad weather reports, flew into a death-laden storm over New Jersey (TIME, July 23, 1928). Last week Mexico's new idol, Col. Pablo Sidar, called "The Madman" for his nerve, set out to capture the glory that had eluded his friend Carranza. In a special Emsco monoplane bought by public subscription, Sidar and Lieut. Carlos Rovirosa would fly from Cerro Loco (Crazy Hill) 5,000 mi. to Buenos Aires, the longest nonstop flight ever attempted. Rain and winds loomed in the South. Madman Sidar...
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