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When Amelia Earhart finally set her plane down in Newark after 14 hr. 18 min., she had flown 2,100 mi. nonstop. No sooner had she cut her switch than a wildly cheering crowd, ignoring 45 policemen, surged onto the runways. Mobsters forced her out of a police radio car, carried her off the field on their shoulders. George Palmer Putnam, ubiquitous husband, became frightened, angry. Said he: "The most disgraceful scene I have ever witnessed. . . . Mexico is four times as civilized as Newark...
...goodwill, for science, and for publicity, Amelia Earhart Putnam set out from Los Angeles one day last week to fly nonstop to Mexico, D. F. (1,700 mi.). The prospect of a visit from the world's No. 1 woman aviator so excited Mexicans that most Government employes were given a holiday, a special postage stamp issue was arranged, and swarthy Foreign Minister Emilio Fortes Gil prepared to greet the lady in the name of the Republic...
...Fortnight ago Wiley Post set out from Los Angeles in the Winnie Mae on what was to be a 400-m.p.h. 7-hr. nonstop flight to New York in the substratosphere. An hour later an overheated engine forced him down in the desert some 100 mi. from Los Angeles. Last week, his eye blazing with indignation, Pilot Post told newshawks two pounds of metal filings, emery dust and other abrasive foreign matter had been found in his engine, had ostensibly been put there by an ill-wisher...
...days, perhaps before this letter reaches you, Rossi and Codos will take off for a nonstop flight to Rio, in their five-year-old plane, with an engine which has already flown 1,000 hours, and if they too succeed, then there will be great rejoicing chez Isnardon, and the wings of France will once more be lifted toward the stars...
...clipper will be factory-tested as soon as the Housatonic River is free of ice. Pan American will test it from New York to Miami, will accept it when it proves itself able to fly 1,250 mi. nonstop at 150 m.p.h. with full complement of passengers, crew and mail. It will probably be slated for the run from Miami to Buenos Aires, which it is expected to cut from seven days to five. If so, it will become the world's biggest and fastest airplane in Regular over-water service...