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Explaining that he had dumped 500 gallons of gasoline during the flight, Flyer Richman snapped: "Five hundred miles off Newfoundland we met a gale head wind which nearly forced the plane into the sea. I believe we would have crashed and drowned had the gas not been dumped...
...awful!" exploded Flyer Merrill to a reporter who found him not speaking to Flyer Richman as they labored to pull their monoplane out of a Newfoundland bog. "We had enough gas to get to Atlanta. Why did we land here in the marsh? Ask Mr. Richman! He's the master mind here...
This week that intrepid transatlantic exhibitionist, Crooner Harry Richman, and his pilot. Dick Merrill, headed back across the ocean from England to the U. S., ran out of gas over Newfoundland, plopped into a bog with slight damages to plane and flyers. Few days before, two really important transatlantic flights had been accomplished with much more efficiency and much less ballyhoo by Germany's Lufthansa...
...Newfoundlands. Meanwhile coaxing efforts were made by London's New Statesman & Nation to have notice taken of a previous British leak which has never been probed. Coaxed the New Statesman & Nation: "Questions might well be asked in Commons regarding allegations in the American paper TIME, which often contains information overlooked in this country. A leakage occurred in the British Government's guarantee of Newfoundland bonds three years ago. The allegation was neatly cut with scissors from copies of TIME available on the bookstalls of this country, but had it been made and names mentioned it should have been...
Possibly this was never done because in 1933, as in 1936, the evidence was largely, if not wholly, circumstantial. It happened that Newfoundland bonds were underwritten by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and, of course, soared in price. It also happened that blocks of such bonds were largely bought just before the rise by British speculators, whose keen sense of values soon enabled them to make a greater killing in Newfoundlands in 1933 than in this year's rather pip-squeak Budget leak...