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Left behind at Langley Field, Va. when the GHQ Air Force flew to California, four of the Army's four-engined Boeing "flying fortresses" made a surprise Sunday flight of 1,700 mi., north to Augusta, Me., inland to Rochester, N. Y. and return, with empty bomb racks but full machine-gun crews and equipment...
Near Forrest City, some 160 mi. from Hot Springs, there was a rude interruption. In the eyes of an approaching conductor, as well as of the Arkansas law, which provides fines for trainmen who neglect to separate Negroes from whites, Congressman Mitchell was just another Negro. The conductor ordered him to take his bags and get up to the Jim Crow car behind the baggage car. He protested, showed his ticket, pointed to a number of unoccupied sections. Vacancies or no vacancies, the conductor informed him, the only place he or any Negro could ride in Arkansas was second-class...
...Alaska in winter and spring, everybody talks about the weather and nearly everybody does something about it. Midstream in the ice-locked Tanana River at Nenana, a Government railroad junction, some 60 mi. southwest of Fairbanks, a 25-ft. pole stands upright, frozen fast. "Nenana Ice Pool'' reads a sign that it holds aloft. From the pole a wire runs ashore to the trigger of a time clock. During the early spring, Alaskans pay $1 for a chance to guess the exact day, hour and minute that the ice will move far enough down the Tanana to take...
...head, after a neck & neck drive against Jerome H. Louchheim's Pompoon, whom he outran by almost two lengths in last fortnight's Kentucky Derby; at Pimlico racetrack, Baltimore, Md. ¶ Marshall Eldredge, 36-year-old East Weymouth, Mass, mechanic: the tenth annual 130-mi. Albany to New York boat race, No. 1 event of the year for outboards; at 41.7 m.p.h.; in a Jacoby Flyaway Special...
...system of all was brought into play-Television. In its most ambitious experiment yet, B. B. C. trained three filmless scanning cameras connected with the central transmitting station by cable costing $5,000 per mile. An estimated audience of 50,000 televiewers in an area of 7,500 sq. mi. watched the screens of their little receiving sets (average cost: $400) as the Procession passed, the King & Queen bowed close up, the excited Princesses waved and giggled. By no means perfect, this visual report was acclaimed by all its subscribers as marvelously satisfying and the London Times proudly thundered...