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...months ago on American Airlines. Month ago Jimmy Doolittle flew a Vultee to a new coast-to-coast transport record of 11 hr. 59 min. (TIME, Jan. 28). Last week an obscure American Airlines pilot named Leland S. Andrews climbed into the Doolittle Vultee at Los Angeles, streaked non-stop to Washington to deliver a box of orchids to Mrs. Roosevelt. After a 12-minute stopover he took off again, hopped to Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field in an hour, zoomed the runways and landed at Newark ten minutes later. Elapsed time: 11 hr. 34 min. 16 sec. Average...
...School. In 1922 he became the first man to cross the U. S. in less than 24 hours. In 1931 he became the first to do it in less than twelve. Last week American Airlines invited him to pilot one of its eight-passenger single-motored Vultees on a non-stop coast-to-coast...
...board their plane were three paying passengers - two bankers and famed German Aviatrix Thea Rasche. Turner reached Athens an hour after the Dutch entry, complained of a splitting headache. Speeding non-stop from England, the Mollisons leaped sensationally into first place when they swooped into Bagdad, first control point, hours ahead of the field. There Amy kept Irak officials waiting while she took a hot bath, her husband waiting while she made a little speech. Hardly had the dust of the departing Mollisons settled on the Bagdad field when in dropped a second British plane, piloted by Flight Lieutenant Charles...
Nominee & Platform. Two days after his nomination, Sinclair lit out for Hyde Park to receive the congratulations of a highly embarrassed President. Like the fabled Dutchman and the non-stop salt machine, the President was discovering that his New Deal liberalism was undamming an undisciplined torrent of independent Leftist movements all over the country: Huey Long's Share-the-Wealth Clubs, Prestonia Mann Martin's "Commons & Capitals," Dr. Francis Everett Townsend's pension scheme (TIME. Oct. 15). There was an EPIW in Washington. Some 200,000 persons were said to be enrolled in the Utopian Society...
...Last week's arrival in the U. S. was not T. O. M. Sopwith's first. In 1911, when he was 23 and had just won £4,000 for a non-stop flight of 176 mi., he brought to the U. S. a rickety biplane. With it, he made exhibition flights, took such notables as Nelson Doubleday and Walter Damrosch up for rides over Long Island. Interested in speed on water also, he won the Harmsworth Trophy in 1912 with Edgar Mackey's Maple Leaf IV, defended it successfully the next year. With the War, ''Tom" Sopwith began...