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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passengers in nearly two years of transpacific flying, did not think the Clipper had caught fire. After last January they had changed the design of the gasoline dump valves. What had happened they did not know. The Hearst press suggested that since one of the passengers, a Jersey City, N. J. restaurant owner named Wah Sun Choy, was carrying money to China, was it not a case of Japanese sabotage? An investigator from the Bureau of Air Commerce started from Washington, with little hope of discovering anything. Meanwhile, the Hawaii Clipper'?, sister ships, the China Clipper and the Philippine...
...across the Atlantic, this will be a tantalizing summer. Last week the upper component of the British Short-Mayo Composite, the seaplane Mercury ("The piggyback plane"), arrived in Foynes, Eire, after an uneventful round trip to Canada and the U. S. And last week off City Island, N. Y., the Lufthansa Nordmeer, flicked like a bug from the deck of its catapult ship, the Friesenland, skittered across to the Azores just after its colleague, the Nordwind, had skittered from the Azores to Port Washington, Long Island. Howard Hughes and Douglas Corrigan having completed (TIME, July 25) their spectacular flights with...
...Bathurst on the bulging coast of Africa, thence in Dornier DO-18s across the narrow South Atlantic to where South America bulges out to meet them at Natal, Brazil. Lufthansa one day will carry passengers on this route; until last year, when the Hindenburg burned up at Lakehurst, N. J., passengers could make the crossing any fortnight by Zeppelin...
When the late Dr. Samuel Smith Drury was Rector of St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.), he was offered two other jobs: the Episcopal coadjutor-bishopric of Pennsylvania, the rectorship of Manhattan's Trinity Church ("one of the most enviable jobs in or beyond the Episcopal Church" which has often proved a stepping-stone to the top-ranking bishopric of New York). St. Paul's is the oldest and biggest of the haughty Episcopal preparatory schools, and its headmastership always ranked high, but Dr. Drury's nolo episcopari enormously increased the prestige...
...Palmer Davidson of Montclair, N. J., tired of traffic noises outside his house, complained to Mayor William E. Speers that he had taken to sleeping with clamshells clamped over his ears...