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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, to Newark's fury, Mayor LaGuardia finally won a skirmish in his fight to have a home field supersede Newark Airport as Manhattan's main air terminal. Fortnight ago he personally detonated the dynamite which felled a power-house chimney which was the only approach hazard at Floyd Bennett Field. Last week this improvement finally persuaded an important airline to try Floyd Bennett; American Airlines inaugurated a "summer service" of one plane a day from Floyd Bennett to Boston. American's eight other Boston flights will still start from Newark and all will terminate there...
...inch and a half wide moving at 8 m.p.h. When the gripman grips, the cable car moves steadily up the steepest hill, protected by three sets of brakes. Busiest cable car is the Powell Street line, starting on a turntable where Powell joins Market Street, San Francisco's "main stem." Passengers scurry for seats while the gripman and conductor swing the tiny car on the turntable until it faces uphill. Then with a great clanking (gripmen traditionally play tunes on their gongs) the car rolls up the sharp grade, past the swank Fairmont and Mark Hopkins Hotels while...
...islands of the South Seas, Author Villiers is crisply honest about the seamy side of the voyage. Financial worries led his grievances, but he stuck to his vow to "make no films, advertise nothing, perform no stunts," letting publisher's royalties from past and future books bear the main expense. Personnel problems were plentiful among his boyish crew, but chief offenders were the finicky U. S. college boys, who were apt to be diligent only about seducing native women. The radio brought a whole world's unwelcome troubles. Of the ship chandlers he bought from, only three around...
...Sweden. Eventually she returned to the U. S. and. though her vogue has been quieter here, her system of functional exercises is being used at eminently respectable schools like Finch (Manhattan J, Greenwich Academy, Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill (Greenfield. Mass.), Laurel (Cleveland), Ogontz (Ogontz, Pa.) and at Yale. Her main U. S. school is a large, sunny room filled with full-length mirrors, at No. 36 West 59th St.; Manhattan, where last week five important businessmen and 25 young women who hope to become Mensendieck instructors were watchfully wriggling their muscles in accordance with a finely printed new illustrated manual...
...barging at 40 m.p.h. down a hill on the main highway through Salem. Ill. when a front tire blew out. Swerving onto the soft shoulder, the bus careened with tremendous force into the abutment of an overpass. With a reverberation heard for a mile, the gas tanks exploded, spread flames which were soon shooting 40 ft. high. The wreckage rolled over, lay on its side across the road. The engine, torn completely off, fell 200 ft. away. The driver and another man shot through the windshield, badly hurt, clothes ablaze. Three others managed to crawl through the windows...