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...considered the largest independent pipe line in the East Texas field, which indicated the Connally Act was at last to be invoked in earnest. By last week 23 of the 25 had posted bond. One of the other two was variously reported as being in Spain and the Samoa Islands...
Continuing his discussion of some aspects of American naval policy, Baxter warned that "they can't get us by land, but they can get us by air." Against this danger he advocated a ring of defense extending from the Aleutian Islands, through the Sandwich Islands and Samoa to the Panama Canal Zone...
...Clipper was safe in Apia harbor. She was down safe on the sea near Tutuila. Only the high mountains were keeping her signals from coming through. More alarmingly, a native was said to have reported he had seen fire in the sky and smoke on the water off Samoa. And then the Avocet, following streaks of oil floating on the long ocean swells, came upon what was left of the $320,000 Samoan Clipper 14 miles northwest of Pago Pago-a drawer, pieces of a coat, pages of the engineering log, part of the navigating desk, a pair of trousers...
...American Airways, providing that regular service was established between Auckland and Honolulu before 1938. Basing at Honolulu, P. A. A. last month sent its servicing "mother ship" 1,075 miles due south to Kingman Reef, first stop on the new route. Second stop was established at Pago Pago, Samoa, 1,538 miles farther south, where the clippers are prepared for the 1,798-mile jump into Auckland. Last week, flying his 19-ton. Sikorsky Samoan Clipper a steady 135 m.p.h., P. A. A.'s taciturn, 43-year-old veteran Captain Edwin C. Musick uneventfully traversed this route. This week...
Apia, Western Samoa: Laundry. Ah Chee...