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Segments of the green snake came from Mitchel Field, N. Y., from Kelly Field and Fort Crockett in Texas, from Crissy and Rockwell Fields in California, from all over the country. When the armada assembled at Wright and Fairfield Fields in Dayton, it became a dire aerial weapon capable of firing 2,000,000 shots a minute or loosing 100,000 Ib. of bombs. Its title: The First Provisional Air Division...
...only 56 years of age; he spends from one to two hours each day in the saddle; and is a great walker and sometimes even behaves like an irresponsible young boy! This winter I visited him for a few days in Florida when he and Mr. S. Z. Mitchel of Electric Bond & Share fame routed me out of bed at 4:30 a. m. to hunt foxes...
...Within four months Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, "Lefty Louis" Rosenberg, "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz, "Whitey" Lewis and "Dago Frank" Ciro-fici were sentenced to death for the murder. The reaction to this affair gave the State a Reform Governor (Charles S. Whitman), the city a Reform Mayor (John Purroy Mitchel). Last week there was as yet no indictment in the three-week-old Bischoff case, and Boss Curry knew that his constituency wanted one. He knows that the strength of Tammany lies in keeping the populace lethargic and contented: providing food for the needy, releasing important Republicans from jury duty...
Crowning absurdity cited by Writer Allen was the decoration of youthful Capt. Benjamin Mendez who, sent by the Colombian Government to the U. S. to learn to fly, was known at Mitchel Field as "Benny the Gas Boy." He won the Cross for a homeward flight to Bogota "during which Mendez wrecked at least two airplanes and took nearly enough time to have flown around the world...
Colyumist Kahn writes with the authority of 2,700 hours flight, including considerable test and night flying. In demonstrating the Cabot Aerial Pickup device to postoffice officials at Mitchel Field last summer, he made 99 successful pickups in 100 trials. He has five planes in his own ("Roweka") hangar at Roosevelt Field, L. I.; a Vought Corsair, a Bellanca Pacemaker, an Ireland amphibian, a Fleet, a hybrid Standard with a Sikorsky wing...