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Besides the 100 men in the planes, some 300 men on land and water are engaged in helping the squadron to cross and recross the ocean. Every scheduled stopping point and an emergency station at Greenland will be manned by crews of meteorologists, radiomen, mechanics. About 15 cruisers and trawlers and even two submarines (good at snaking through drift ice) patrol the course. Last link in the preparations which held up the take-off last week was establishment of the base at Labrador. The supply ship Alicia had not yet crashed the late icejam from the Strait of Belle Isle...
...that wasn't so-' "Let us write a nice list of mistakes they can use, "And publish a broadside 'gainst those who enthuse "About writing correctly; we simply can't bother. "But for all unmistakable errors-well, rather! "We'll cross and recross with red ink all of those, "And for those kind the students will pay through the nose! "Better middle-class English we'll teach in our schools, "And correct composition we'll leave to the fools "Who are picayune, narrow, and nasty enough "To insist that their pupils must master...
...moral in the last sentence Mr. Bris bane has repeated as often as that child-rearing and travel broaden one. An incessant traveler himself, he happened to recross Kansas last week. Another colyumist, Urban Heywood Broun (reputedly earns more than $50,000 yearly), also crossed Kansas last week-for the first time...
...last time last week. Myron T. Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France, was one of my passengers. I have reached the age limit, 55, after 37 years of seafaring. To newsgatherers I would only say: 'I would rather not speak about it at all.' I shall recross the ocean this month as an ordinary passenger to attend the wedding of one of my children...
Many miners are immigrants? chiefly Poles, Russians. There were indications that several thousand would take this opportunity to recross the Atlantic?one was returning to Central Europe with $10,000, enough to buy up his native thorp...