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...indicator efficiently, a navigator needs occasional glimpses of the ground or, over the sea, a celestial sight, for checking wind drift. But the gadget is sometimes surprisingly accurate by itself. In one test, a Bendix pilot took off at Boca Raton in weather that had grounded all air traffic and, flying solely by the indicator, without the use of radio and with only one brief glimpse of the ground, hit within six miles of his goal at Salina, Kans...
...ARMY SERGEANT'S NAME WITHHELD] Boca Raton Field...
...first day, having hit a top of 35 m.p.h., the caravan trundled as far as Kansas City. Day later came La Junta, Colo. Then the trucks angled South, climbed over the steep Raton Pass into New Mexico, headed out over the barren Southwest. Rolling drearily along at an average of 22 m.p.h., the drivers worked in six-hour shifts, slept six hours in the small trailer. Only stops were for food, gas & oil, examination of permits at each state line. Ten hours were lost in such formalities. So smoothly did everything go that the caravan rolled into Los Angeles...
...Notre Dame, again to St. Louis University, where they enjoyed the city but did not attend classes. When 19-year-old Miguel returned to New Mexico, armed warfare had broken out between the Santa Fe and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroads, fighting for the Chicken Creek Route in strategic Raton Pass. Still quarreling with his father's partner, Miguel left the company, visited Denver, saw Leadville at the peak of its boom, became a member of the Chaffee Light Artillery of Colorado and served during the railroad strike of 1879, when the strikers took the roundhouse at Pueblo. Then...
Died. Edwin Perkins ("Ned") Brown, 65, board chairman of Boston's United Shoe Machinery Corp.; of angina pectoris; in Boca Raton, Fla. He joined United Shoe soon after his father and others formed it in 1899. Intrenched behind airtight patents and a leasing system, United Shoe was more than once under fire as a monopoly, lost a battle to the U. S. Government twelve years ago. But last quarter it declared an extra dividend...