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...experimental wonder, the JA-3, will soon be outmoded by a model with a detachable escape cockpit. Bogart falls in with Massey's greedy plans to publicize the JA3 into acceptance by the Air Force. Having risked his neck for money to fly the plane from Nome to Washington by way of the North Pole, a reformed Bogart risks it again for ideals. He tests the new model against orders and sets the Air Force straight...
...long time now I have meant to tell you about TIME'S only woman Senior Editor, Content Peckham. Our most recent inquiry about her is from Reader Charles D. Jones, placer miner, of Nome, Alaska, who wrote, in part...
...forced-draft accomplishments of the years since V-J day, the city and its satellite towns were still grappling with a multiplicity of problems. The prosaic business of supplying new homes with gas, sewage lines and electricity had taken on the breathless urgency of a serum flight to Nome. Under Bowron's administration 50 miles of cast-iron water mains had been laid every month to keep up with the city's mushrooming growth. Los Angeles had built 34 new schools in ten years and still needed "a new one every Monday morning." Though the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph...
...Quebec. He was handy with his fists and his feet, could kick off the bar in the hitch-and-kick* at eight feet. He put together a nondescript dog team, began mushing supplies for the sourdoughs. He blazed a 1,400 mile dog-team trail from Dawson to Nome. He toted a piano on his back up the 1,200 ft. of Chilkoot Pass. With a corpse as cargo, he mushed over the mountains, 400 miles from Fairbanks to Valdez, in 28 days...
...Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society, from Dr. Arthur A. Allen, head of the expedition: "We have found the curlew's nest." It was at 62° north latitude, 164° west longitude, near Mountain Village on the lower Yukon, 160 miles south of Nome. Dr. Allen promised to bring back intimate motion picture studies of the bristle-thighed curlew at home...