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Next morning, in sultry Salina Cruz on the Pacific, local delegations visited Aleman. Labor wanted the port reconditioned; salt producers, more electrification ; the peasants' league, irrigation and roads. To all of them he said he hopes, as President, to do something about such problems. Said Candidate Aleman to U.S. correspondents with him: "I invite you to come back to this region with me three years from now so that you can see ... how the country has developed...
...Beach, Calif. With its turbojet propulsion, the Shooting Star could cover a mile in six seconds. Councill climbed out of the mists, turned on his oxygen, headed for New York. Cities seven miles beneath him began to flash past: La Junta, Colo. (870 miles) in 1 hr. 38 min.; Salina, Kans. (1,190 miles) in 2 hr. 9 min.; Chanute Field, Ill. (1,700 miles) in 3 hr. 2 min. A tail wind pushed the Shooting Star's speed up to 660 m.p.h.-little less than the speed of sound...
...Mouse. In Salina, Kans., Lieut. Robert V. Krengle sued a bottling plant for $10,000, charged that a mouse in his nearly finished bottle of "coke" had permanently spoiled his appetite for soft drinks...
...Tradition. Jeffers was hard but not hard-shelled. He cracked tradition with the low-fare, de luxe chair-car trains which U.P. started to run from Chicago to the coast in 1934. He followed this up in 1935 with the second streamlined train, the tiny three-car City of Salina, the first of the seven streamliners which U.P. now operates...
...evening last week Private Bertucci, stationed at Salina, Utah, abandoned his motto. First he had a few beers in town. He chatted with some Salina girls, stopped off at a cafe for coffee, strolled out to the temporary camp at Main Street's east end, where 250 German prisoners of war slept...