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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Previous record was the 5,657 mi. flown in 1933 by Frenchmen Paul Codes & Maurice Rossi from New York...
Size of a grasshopper invasion depends on two factors: i) the number of eggs laid the previous year; 2) the wetness or dryness of the weather. Moderate rain during the spring months keeps down grasshoppers because in moist weather a parasitic fungus flourishes which preys on the larvae. Scientists estimate the number of eggs by digging up the ground, counting the eggs in small sample areas. After they brought in a heavy egg count last spring, followed by continued dry weather, they predicted the worst...
Story of Montague's arrest contrasted sharply with reports of all his previous Hollywood activities. Shy no longer, he last week posed for photographers as often as they wanted, even let them photograph his hands to show how he held a golf club in his celebrated fingers. Asked how he had succeeded in Hollywood he answered: "I let the other guy's girl alone." Still amiable, he discussed the holdup: "I got into a jam when I was a wild young kid. . . . I'm glad it's over. I had intended going East and clearing this...
...directly into a thunderhead, rode along inside it for an hour during which he was lost to view. Coming out several miles away, he turned back to the hill, entered another thunderhead, rode it for 21 mi., landed in Pennsylvania. Although a few daring pilots had tried it in previous years, this was the first successful demonstration of riding thunderheads at a Soaring Society meet. To sailplane pilots it represents the most fascinating pinnacle of their sport. To most spectators it is as though an aquaplanist were to get bored with skimming the waves on his aquaplane and take...
...first trip across, like the ones that followed, came near being the last. Forced by decrepit freighters to crawl along at eight knots, they lost their best defense against U-boats: speed and zigzagging. A submarine needed only 15 seconds to let go with a "tin fish." Tales about previous submarine victims did not help to relax the nerves any. The first attack came at night, in a grey light that made a submarine invisible except for a dim white ripple. The torpedoes missed by a hair. When an oily patch showed where the submarine had been, the five-inch...