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Even if they had known, few laymen would have been greatly interested in such unspectacular record-breaking. But to airmen the performance was wildly exciting. Over a measured course of 311 mi., her motors throttled down to only 69% of their maximum 3,000 h.p., the 8-42 had flown four times non-stop at an average speed of 157.5 m.p.h., carrying the equivalent of her full load-capacity of 32 passengers, crew of five, 2,000 Ib. of mail and cargo...
...water service. Last April in her first test-flights she broke two world's altitude-with-load records, and with her performance last week now holds all existing transport seaplane records. Following her acceptance by PAA last week she flew non-stop from Bridgeport to Miami (1,300 mi.) for shakedown cruises at the company's Dinner Key Base...
...Last week's arrival in the U. S. was not T. O. M. Sopwith's first. In 1911, when he was 23 and had just won £4,000 for a non-stop flight of 176 mi., he brought to the U. S. a rickety biplane. With it, he made exhibition flights, took such notables as Nelson Doubleday and Walter Damrosch up for rides over Long Island. Interested in speed on water also, he won the Harmsworth Trophy in 1912 with Edgar Mackey's Maple Leaf IV, defended it successfully the next year. With the War, ''Tom" Sopwith began...
Finally the barnacle-crusted hulk of the Islander came grudgingly to the surface, and the salvage boats nursed it toward Admiralty Island, 15 mi. from Juneau. Last week the wreck was beached. Frank Curtis and his men crawled inside, pried into every nook & cranny, sifted the cold slime and sludge foot by foot. Not an ounce of gold did they find...
...also to effect a quick turnover in executives. But Field's does not fire executives; it raises them from the ribbon counter to old age. Of such is President McKinlay, a quiet, determined gentleman with a love for traveling, who was born 60 years ago in Scotland, only 40 mi. from the birth place of his predecessor, able James Simpson, who left Field's to solve the troubles of Insulland (TIME, June 13, 1932). And as long as President McKinlay's store sells more goods than any other in the U. S.?Macy's excepted?he is content...