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...Costes, in the same Brequet plane that vanquished the Atlantic, had made non-stop flights from Paris to Siberia, and again from Paris to Persia. So ably did his ship perform on every occasion (it averaged 110 miles to the hour over the Atlantic), many people thought that, if the weather had been possible this summer, he would have succeeded in a proposed flight from Paris to Manhattan...
Rabbi Kornfeld, President Harding's friend and onetime (1921) Minister to Persia, proved himself a sympathetic latitudinarian on Yom Kippur, most solemn of Jewish days. Continuing his own fast, he fixed Shortstop Cohen a nourishing snack and sent him forth to play shortstop for Buffalo...
Opium. Colonel Daniel W. MacCormack of Boston, technical adviser to the Persian government, urged the U. S., France, Germany, Japan, other drug manufacturing countries, to follow Persia in stemming the flow of poppy juice. He said that Persia, following the lead of India, had agreed to reduce the manufacture of opium 10% annually, which, he said, represented a real economic sacrifice since the export of the drug constituted 20% of the export trade and 10% of the government's revenue. No action was taken...
With her black setter Lord for company & guard, a Swedish camera man and two chauffeurs to drive her baggage truck, she had already last week driven her car 7,300 miles in 42 traveling days-from Constantinople, through Syria, Armenia and Persia, to Moscow. Europeans were amazed; Germans were proud besides...
Seventh Day. Harassed on the one hand by harsh fatigue, on the other by the passing of precious time, Schlee & Brock swung the Pride of Detroit into the air from Bagdad and flew to Bender Abbas, Persia...