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...Passed a bill extending air mail routes some 3,000 mi...
Fred Snite was laid in this machine. Then he was obliged to learn an utterly new mode of life, which he learned so well that last week, still in his respirator, he could begin a 9,000-mi. voyage by truck, train and ship from Peiping to Chicago...
...every stop in the 900-mi, trip across the plains to Shanghai, rich and poor Chinese crowded to see the man who was rich enough to hire a special. To the sick man they paid little attention, because the Press had raised a great tirade against the influential American who had pre-empted the respirator which might otherwise have been used to save a Chinese life...
...earth's orbit around the sun and the moon's orbit around the earth being elliptical, the earth-sun and earth-moon distances vary. For a long eclipse, the sun must be near its maximum swing of over 94,000,000 miles (mean distance: 92,900,000 mi.) and the moon near its minimum distance of 218,000 miles (mean: 235,000 mi.). This condition occurred this week. When the sun is farther away than usual, the shadow cone beyond the moon is longer; and when the moon is closer to earth than usual, the earth intercepts...
...horror-delight of vast crowds in Indianapolis last week, two men were killed and four injured in two spectacular automobile crashes during races preliminary to the 25th annual 500-mi. Sweepstakes on Memorial Day. When this final event came, however, the 150,000 yelling fans clustered around the 2½-mi. brick oval did not get the ultimate thrill. Death took a holiday. Of 33 starters, 14 dropped out with motor trouble, only one had real trouble-a crash which knocked out both driver and mechanic. First to finish was dapper little Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis...