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...officers & crew they comprised Patrol Squadron 10-F, bound for Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. Except for excited San Franciscans who lined the city's hills to watch the takeoff, there was little commotion over what was to be the longest formation flight ever attempted-2,400 mi. The Navy did not think of it as a remarkable flight but a routine transfer of equipment and personnel by air. On San Francisco Bay weather was almost too good. Loaded seaplanes need a brisk headwind or a slightly choppy sea to help them pull up from the water. The ships...
...worst fog England has seen for years, blanketing not only London but an area of 8,000 square miles. (Total area of England 50,327 sq. mi.; Scotland 30,405; Wales 8,016.) Two steps off the curb pedestrians were completely lost. Conductors carrying great sizzling gasoline flares stalked like old-time linkboys ahead of their buses. Many a scarlet omnibus caught fire from the heat of repeatedly jammed brakes. A pair of wild ducks, lost and dizzy, dropped quacking disconsolately in the middle of the Strand. Rail traffic was paralyzed. A Wimbledon train sat on a siding for hours...
Jimmy Wedell was hunting ducks at his grandmother's home 60 mi. from Houston, when a telephone call sent him flying to Houston. There Sue Trammell, 5-months-old daughter of ex-President Wash Bryan Trammell of Houston Natural Gas Co., lay ill with hydrocephalus. The Trammells' other child had died of the same condition a few months before. Mrs. Trammell was frantic when doctors told her that the man who could save Sue's life was Dr. Dandy in Baltimore 1,400 mi. away. Would Mr. Wedell fly Sue & family to Dr. Dandy...
...Helena, Mont, long distance operator called Dr. David T. Berg to the telephone. "Lincoln is calling." Dr. Berg waited. "These is Pete Clausen talking. My wife is having a baby. . . ." Lincoln was 55 mi. away over snowed-under roads. Outdoors was -20°. Dr. Berg bundled himself well, started to motor to the case. Thirty miles out of Helena 6-ft. snow drifts blocked his car. He secured a tractor, arrived at the accouchement with 15 minutes to spare...
...Corp. As chairman of the finance committee, he ruthlessly lopped $39,000,000 (including $6,000,000 of salaries) from Paramount's budget. Last year when he resigned that job John Hertz swore he was going back for good to his big estate in Gary, Ill., about 40 mi. northwest of Chicago. Now his entry into Lehman Brothers marks the death of John Hertz, Chicago taxi tycoon, the birth of John Hertz, Manhattan banker...