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...Horta in the Azores, some 500 miles off Lisbon, sped the mothership Schwabenland. Aboard were the world's most powerful catapult and two sleek new Dornier all-metal flying boats, the Aeolus and Zephir. High-winged monoplanes with sponsons, powered by two Junkers Diesel engines in tandem on the wing-top, they weigh ten tons, have a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Anchoring 100 miles off Horta, the Schwabenland prepared to send one plane non-stop to New York, the other to Bermuda, then to New York. Reason the start was from the Azores is that Lufthansa regards...
...Everything's lovely,'' grinned Benny Howard, as attendants retanked his speedy little white monoplane Mister Mulligan at Wichita, Kan. one morning last week. With his pretty wife Maxine at his side, his sleek, self-designed plane functioning perfectly, Pilot Howard had reason to be pleased. Competing in the famed Bendix Transcontinental Race from New-York's Floyd Bennett Field to Los Angeles for the opening of the 1936 National Air Races. he already had a commanding lead...
...Pictorial circulation, in 1925, was only 65,278. Last week the Times's President Arthur Hays Sulzberger finally cut Mid-Week Pictorial adrift, but not without seeing that its control was to fall into able hands. It was announced that Mid-Week Pictorial had been sold to sleek, shrewd Monte Bourjaily, who last week resigned as general manager of the (United Press) United Features Syndicate...
...Norman Saksvig and Edith Kohn. At another sat Cortez W. Peters, a 220-lb. Washington, D. C. Negro, wearing a brown silk polo shirt, a white rag bound around his brow. At a fifth desk, a special one with built-in knee pads to protect his shaking knees, sat sleek, handsome, 33-year-old Albert Tangora, instructor in Manhattan's Radio City School of Business Practice & Speech. He wore a green eyeshade and his manicured fingers raced to keep the title he won year ago with 128 words a minute...
...desire to own a large morning newspaper and $15,000,000 in cash. Mr. Annenberg had both. Forthwith he sent one of the five Annenberg sons-in-law to Paris to dicker with the Inquirer's socialite owners, Mme Eleanore Elverson Paternõtre and her sleek son Raymond, onetime Undersecretary of State for National Economy, member of the Chamber of Deputies and publisher of the Paris Petit Journal. Last week the deal went through. From his modest Manhattan offices, Purchaser Annenberg announced that he was taking over active control of the Inquirer at once, that...