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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week speed cost England dearly. Late one night, a few days after his return from Kut, where he had officially dedicated a 1,615-foot dam which will irrigate the now-dreary site of the Garden of Eden, Ghazi set out from the royal palace in Bagdad in an open sports car. He was on his way to Harthiyah Palace, a few miles from town. As he zoomed past a crossing, he lost control of the car, shot off the road smack into an electric light pole. His skull was crushed and he died within an hour. It took...
This week the Clipper lay at her moorings at Southampton, England, ready for the return flight. Purpose of the trip, which may be the last before Pan-Am begins regular service to Europe this summer : to check technical facilities, including radio direction-finding equipment at Lisbon and Marseille...
Last week Conductor Stokowski, back in Philadelphia on a return engagement, rounded out the sixth season of Philadelphia's Youth Concerts. Three thousand youngsters crammed the aged Academy of Music. (This season's tickets were all sold out two hours after they were placed on sale.) As a special treat Stokowski gave them a world premiere: Alexander Gretchaninoff's Fifth Symphony. Then, as one adolescent, the whole audience sang Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Schubert's Ave Maria and a brand-new Philadelphia Youth Song to music by Sibelius. Maestro Stokowski called for more...
...caution to U. S. parents, but a joy to radio merchandising, is the dread truth that little pitchers have big ears. Daily into these ears the radio pours its ride-'em-cowboy adventure and hearty-uncle promise of dandy premiums in return for mailed-in cereal box tops, bread labels, candy wrappers. Hapless parents, besides footing the bills, have a job on their hands in getting their supercharged, excited youngsters to bed. Result is that children's programs come in for persistent beefing, not only by U. S. parents but by the more-feared Federal Communications Commission...
...Cherbourg surrounded by French detectives, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh boarded the Aquitania, bound for the U. S. "on business" - his first return since he and Mrs. Lindbergh came for two months in 1937. Said Chairman Morris Sheppard of the U. S. Senate Military Affairs Committee : "I think he could give us some valuable information...