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...when automobiling was a sport requiring goggles and a linen duster, William Kissam Vanderbilt II and some rich cronies who wanted to motor to their Long Island homes at 40 m.p.h. without scaring horses and infuriating the public, joined in buying a 50-mi. strip of land down Long Island from Flushing to Lake Ronkonkoma. On it they built a narrow, wriggling ribbon of concrete and macadam with bridges over every crossroad. Total cost: $3,500,000. The Long Island Motor Parkway was thus the first modern type highway. In 1908, 1909 & 1910 Mr. Vanderbilt & friends used five miles...
...wingspread. To fly it Dictator Stalin chose, not Sigismund Levanevsky as announced, but three other "Heroes of the Soviet Union"-Pilot Valeri Pavlovitch Chkaloff, 33, Co-Pilot Georgi Phillipovitch Baidukoff, 30, and Navigator Alexander Vassielievitch Beliakoff, 40. Last year this trio flew the same plane on a 5,858-mi. non-stop circuit of the Soviet Arctic. Because Levanevsky's failure on a transpolar flight two years ago brought unfavorable publicity, this year's venture was kept a dark secret long after the red and grey plane left Moscow. Then a Canadian radio station plucked the news from...
Like a gnat buzzing over a man's bald head, the ANT-25 droned along at a bare 100 m. p. h. with its 2,000-gal. load of gas, passed 20 mi. away from the North Pole base. When their radio cut out under polar magnetic influence, Navigator Beliakoff used the sun compass invented by Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. It got so cold the drinking water froze, and the men would have too, but for their silk undergarments, leather breeches and turtlenecked sweaters. Only Baidukoff took a nap. Chkaloff stayed at the controls steadily, nursed his ship down...
...permanent peace pact. Prime difficulty lies in the fact that the skeleton Bolivian and Paraguayan armies (limited to 5,000 men apiece) have each moved back only a few miles from the positions they held at the time of the armistice, when Paraguay had pushed into 50,000 sq. mi. of the Chaco. This has seemed as natural to Paraguay's Provisional President Colonel Rafael Franco as it has seemed intolerable to Bolivia's Provisional President Colonel Jose David Toro, both professional fire-eaters who got into power by convincing their respective countrymen that the exhausted governments which...
...boxes were boosted into a moving van which rumbled out of town that evening. In the 6 a. m. quiet of Saturday morning the Coryell staff reassembled with their families, piled into 13 automobiles festooned with banners and wound off in a honking caravan toward Colorado Springs, 600 mi. away. A cameraman hired by L. L. Coryell & Son stood beside the road to film the spectacle -a whole business going away for the summer...