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...years ago. Upon opening the envelope of predictions last week, Auerbach found that his pupils had envisioned some wild and fantastic advances. Like supersonic planes crossing the Atlantic in three hours, as Michael Lappin predicted. And as David Scatter speculated, "Men may even walk on the moon." Marion Speich fantasized that there would be pushbutton telephones. Ah, but those that dreamed more down-to-earth dreams, how little they knew. "There might be a cure for cancer," thought Gail Lewis. And warmer winters in Buffalo were the vain hope of a boy named Francis...
...evening with a new ladies' endurance record of 35 hr. 46 min. 55 sec. sustained flight, surpassing by nearly ten hours the previous record (26 hr. 21 min. 32 sec. by Elinor Smith), falling 2 hr. 14 min. short of the men's record (last October; Vern Speich at Long Beach, Calif...
Solo Endurance. Vern Speich, Santa Ana, Calif., automobile salesman, kept his plane up 38 hrs., 48 sec. at Long Beach, Calif., last week, thus breaking the non-refueling solo endurance record (36 hrs., 56 min., 36 sec.) of Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy...
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