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...Beanlands, suddenly dowered by widowhood with money and a chance to gesture, thought it would be romantic to make a non-stop flight from England to Hong-Kong. Adventurer Wilmot Shap, eyeing her fortune, encouraged her, went along as navigator, hoped the trip would end in a wedding. Pilot Jimmy Wreaks, scarred and one-eyed from crashes, went because he was paid to fly the ship, thought they had a good chance of coming through. But they did not. Somewhere over Eastern Turkestan oil began to spray back from the engine; Jimmy had to make a forced landing...
...Earl Brydges, musher from Cranberry Portage: the 200-mi. non-stop dogsled derby at The Pas, Manitoba, riding in his sled, too tired to mush, with three played-out dogs in the sled with him, and six pulling. Shorty Russic was second; Emil St. Goddard, the favorite, third...
...been notable, though all of the major projects were under way in the preceding year. Structure such as the west side highway in New York City, the outer drive in Chicago and the super-highways of Detroit indicate that the major city trunk lines of the future will be non-stop express ways probably of elevated construction. There can be little doubt that the economic savings will warrant the development. They offer the most important single step in the urban traffic horizon...
Trans-Atlantic. Capt. J. Errol Boyd (Canadian) and Lieut. Harry Connor, retired U. S. Navy flyer who with Roger Quincy Williams flew the old Bellanca-built Columbia non-stop from Long Island to Bermuda and back (TIME, July 7), last week flew the Columbia from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Tresco, one of the Scilly islands, 25 mi. off Cornwall, England. Theirs was the fifth heavier-than-air crossing this year, the 26th in history. They spent the night in that Arthurian Land of Lyonnesse, then continued to Croyden, their real destination. First to greet them there was Charles A. Levine...
...Government, led by President Hoover, last week gave itself over to honoring France's Dieudonné Coste and Maurice Bellonte, first to make the Paris-to-New York non-stop flight (see p. 26). In the rose garden back of the White House President Hoover greeted the Frenchmen in the name of the Nation in a little speech about their returning Col. Lindbergh's visit. Later in the White House was served a State luncheon...