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...runway at Stephenville, Newfoundland, and pointed in the general direction of London. Colonel J. M. Gillespie, her commander, pushed a button. From then on, the plane behaved as if an invisible crew were working her controls. The four engines roared for the takeoff, the brakes let go, the plane sped down the runway and climbed up over the Atlantic while the wheels retracted automatically. At 9,000 ft., it leveled off and headed for London at normal cruising speed...
...Minaki Special bore straight down the main line. On No. 4, Engineer Gibson and Fireman Hazen Lawrie saw its headlight. They waited a moment, thinking it would stop and go into the siding, as it was supposed to do. But it sped past the switch. As they jumped, they heard the shriek of brakes...
...Athenians there was one happy occasion last week. At Piraeus, the port of Athens, Archbishop Damaskinos said a blessing over a bargeload of flour (see cut). It was the first tangible evidence of the $17,000,000 worth of supplies sped to Greece under the U.S. aid program...
...blow lasted 2½ days. While fancier racing craft had to shorten sail to ride it out, the rugged 71-ft. schooner Dolphin II, owned and captained by Actor Frank Morgan, was doting on the gale. She sped westward under full canvas...
...week's end a special committee got ready to go to Ottawa to demand a Dominion-subsidized, low cost, low rental housing program. Jessica's last bulletin sped it on its way: "The strength of true democracy lies in sound local government. And the strength of local government lies in cooperative effort...