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...down at Hawaii with a new record for the jump. Next day, mechanics achieved a flurry of headlines by discovering "a potential disaster threat" in faulty lubrication of the propeller bearings. That fixed Flyer Amelia climbed aboard with two of her crew to take off for the 1,940 mi. hop to Howland Island. Down the ong concrete runway of Luke Field the ship shot at 60 m.p.h. Suddenly the left tire blew out. Lurching, the plane rumpled its landing gear, careened 1,000 ft.. on its bottom in a spray of sparks while he propellers knotted like pretzels...
...example, the Government has provided American Airlines not one modern range on its 466-mi. run from Tucson to Los Angeles. The most important single factor impeding air safety thus comes down to the unbalance between the flying equipment of the operators, which is the best in the world, and that of the Government, which is mediocre...
Next, popping into an airplane, Dictator Mussolini flew to Amseat on the Egyptian frontier. There, where a 200-mi. barbed-wire Egyptian boundary fence begins its southern sweep, he inaugurated the Balbo-built "Greatest Highway in Africa," 1,200 miles of macadamized strategic coastal road, over which Il Duce soon would drive back westward to Tripoli, the colonial capital. Before setting out he first inspected elaborate underground fortifications along the coast and flew from Tobruk to Derna, a name stirring to every historically-minded U. S. Marine...
...bridges to make sure nothing had been jarred loose. Seismologists estimated that the shock was about half as strong as the catastrophic quake of 1906. Dr. Albert Newlin of Santa Clara University said that slippage had occurred along the Hayward Fault, which runs nearly 50 mi. southward from...
...Fairbanks, Alaska, hockey, snowshoeing, skiing, curling, fireworks and a beauty contest were part of an international goodwill and progress celebration which wound up with a 16-mi. all-comers' dog race. Wearing a gold and ivory crown, Beauty Queen Marguerite Lee saw John Allen's team of "Irish Wolves" (Malemute, Irish setter and wolf stock) win, on average time for three heats...