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...midnight they poured out of the Federal Reserve Bank and 16 of the biggest of them mounted into five waiting limousines, sped northward up silent lower Broadway past the slumbering warehouses of Lafayette Street, up Park Avenue, among the taxis of night-club-goers to the home of Governor Lehman who was patiently staying home for them, having given up his trip to the inauguration...
...fame of Goldsboro's Hoovercart Rodeo spread. Rodeos and parades were held in Oxford (469 entries), in Roxboro, Kinston and Wendell. More & more Hoovercarts appeared on North Carolina roads, spread northward into Virginia. Last week the first one appeared on the streets of Danville (pop. 22,247). Virgilina, Va. organized a Hoovercart parade...
...Banks Island, the westernmost of the stupendous archipelago which clutters the Arctic north of Canada. Off Banks Island an ice floe struck the Dora, shoved her completely over an uncharted islet, cracked her beyond repair. The two men managed to reach big Banks Island with sledges & dogs, proceeded northward, sheltering themselves in snow-block houses, cooking only one meal a day, at other times chewing quok (frozen meat...
Shortly after turning northward, a bird struck a wing of the big amphibian. Airmen always think this is a bad augury. Halfway to Angmagsalik the party ran into a blinding blizzard that whipped up a nasty sea, blotted out the visibility. Snow so loaded the plane that the speed was cut to 60 m.p.h. Unable to climb above the storm, Pilot Hutchinson dropped to 50 ft. With windshields caked with snow, he dodged icebergs and cliffs until forced to make a practically blind landing. Drift ice punctured a pontoon. Radioman Gerald Altfilisch sent out SOS calls and their position, soon...
California's butterfly horde left the high Sierras two months ago, began moving northward toward the Sacramento Valley. Traveling 20 m. p. h. it moved for a few hours, then stopped, dispersed, later gathered again for a fresh trip. Last week it was near the end of its migration, for California tortoise shell butterflies seldom seek the lowlands...