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...cloth to make sure the dye is not fast. In the wet coastal heat they sweat the dye from the cloth to their skins. No true Blue Woman would look at a man who was not also a good deep blue. The Blue Men's rebellion flickers 200 mi. south of the main Berber rebellion around Marrakesh. Their chief capitals, fortified oases, are Tiiznit, Smara and Kerdous. Their last few Sultans have been notably stupid...
...horde of poor relations. The solution, old Wilhelm concluded, was to move to Germany to collect the rents and later, perhaps, the crown and country. The walls of the quiet room were crowded with mementoes of the great days before 1918. Potsdam was only 16 years and 350 mi. away. Listening to their father's proud boasts, the sons felt 16 years younger but they looked doubtful. Last week Belgium's Chamber of Deputies raised King Leopold's civil list allowance from 8.000,000 francs ($375.000) to 12.000.000 francs ($560.000) per year. To his father...
...gown. Many a retired farmer & wife have moved in to run rooming & boarding houses and, with the University's College of Agriculture and its adjacent cornfields, give the town a pleasantly rural flavor. But Illinois is by no means a bumpkin college. Down from Chicago, 130 mi. to the north, come more than one-third of Urbana-Champaign's 8,500 students, bringing big city airs and manners for all the rest to ape. Young men who can afford it dress like customers' men and young women look fresh from Michigan Boulevard. Dancing and "dates...
...clipper will be factory-tested as soon as the Housatonic River is free of ice. Pan American will test it from New York to Miami, will accept it when it proves itself able to fly 1,250 mi. nonstop at 150 m.p.h. with full complement of passengers, crew and mail. It will probably be slated for the run from Miami to Buenos Aires, which it is expected to cut from seven days to five. If so, it will become the world's biggest and fastest airplane in Regular over-water service...
...passenger American Airways plane, started back to his job. For fellow passengers he had a Manhattan advertising man and an Ohio sanitary engineer. Pilot Walter Hallgren had made the St. Louis-Chicago run for six years and was approaching his millionth flight mile. After the plane had bored 100 mi. into Illinois, thick, wet snow began to envelop it. The Chicago radio operator heard its pilot report: "Visibility one-eighth mile, ceiling 500 ft., ice forming on wings and tail." Hallgren did not hear Chicago order him to turn back to St. Louis. He felt his plane settling groggily, looked...