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...which the U. S. and Britain are amicably equal they are angrily desirous of building somewhat different kinds of ships. The U. S., poorly equipped with naval bases, needs war boats of comparatively large tonnage and consequent long cruising range. Britain, well equipped with bases from which to refuel her fleets, would like to build smaller war boats, thus enabling her to pack a greater number of fighting units inside her global tonnage. This the U. S. cannot permit, fearful of a British swarm of hornet ships. Britain in turn fears what the U. S. might achieve with a sudden...
Duration (without refuel): H. Kaulen; 87 hr. in free balloon (Germany...
...pilot. Shortly after he flew as one of the daring "Three Musketeers" of the Air Corps at Rockwell Field, Calif. First he saw Musketeer "Willie" Williams land on his back. A month later Musketeer W. L. Cornelius died in a mid-air collision. Lieut. Woodring carried on, helped refuel the Army's famed Question Mark endurance plane; flew from Vancouver to New York in record time with a copy of Japan's ratification of the London Naval Treaty (1930). Another officer flying with a duplicate copy crashed in a Wyoming blizzard...
...again last week was China's anti-Japanese boycott, cause of the much deplored Japanese invasion of Shanghai. On pain of a general strike, the Chinese Seamen & Pilots' Association ordered Chinese shipowners to refuse to refuel with Japanese coal. In Shanghai two new boycott clubs were formed, known respectively as The Purified Heart & Hot Blood Corps for the Extermination of Traitors, and The Blood & Soul Society...
There was beautiful precision to the first stage of the flight. The Fort Worth climbed out of Seattle's Boeing Field before dawn, kept rendezvous with her trimotored Ford refuel plane over Fairbanks that evening only 30 min. behind time. Throttled down to comparatively slow speeds the planes flew together while the Fort Worth drained 200 gal. from her nurse above. Then both flew on to Nome, made contact again in a brisk wind. A load of 435 gal. was needed to complete the flight. After taking 300 gal. the Fort Worth became unmanageable in the wind. Robbins & Jones...