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...Falls Village, Conn., where the devotees will unfold their boats for an 18-mi. paddle down the Housatonic through 50 rapids (including one dangerous one) to Flanders, Conn., where the train will pick them up again. Cost of ticket: $2.25. Rent of a faltboat: $4 for a single-seater, $7 for a tandem...
...cease dillydallying over his projected "Folksy Automobile" and start turning it out at a price of about 1,000 marks. At official exchange rates this would be $400, and all Hitler demands that the German public be given for this price is a flimsy little four-seater with a two-cylinder engine. In Europe, however, the credo that "an automobile is an expensive luxury" dies hard. Today the sort of German capitalists who financed Adolf Hitler in the first place are in panic at his "inflexible resolve" that they shall offer the German folk a volkswagen at a folksy price...
While matrons unavoidably trampled by police horses were rubbed with liniment, the Duke & Duchess slipped off from their wedding feast, popped into a buzzing two-seater sport car. They zipped to a suburban station and Britain's most famed train, The Flying Scotsman, halted to take them aboard, sped them to honeymoon on the estate of his mother, a Maxwell. Short is their Scottish holiday, for conducting the Coronation of George VI is an hereditary duty which the Duke of Norfolk must discharge, and Westminster Abbey has already been closed for preparations and rehearsals...
...before the opening, Pilot Benjamin King rode his tiny, single-seater seaplane at an average of 70.48 m.p.h. for 500 km., then at 80.93 m.p.h. for 100 km., thus taking two world records, giving the U. S. more world records than any other nation...
...Costs must be paid by the County of Surrey because in that unfortunate vicinity hell-raising Edward Southwell Russell, 28, the 26th Baron de Clifford, a descendant of one of William the Conqueror's knights, was driving his supercharged sports car when it collided with the cheap four-seater of one Douglas George Hopkins who was killed...