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...operation was, in fact, a master piece of economy. Specially designed Stinson tri-motors requiring only one pilot were bought from Errett Lobban Cord. Automobile gas was used for cruising, until aviation gas prices were forced down to 7½? per gal. Pilots were instructed to taxi on one motor instead of three. . . . Result : Cost per mi. was 37?, while other operators of tri-motors were having difficulty in getting under $1 per mi. At the end of the first year, September 1, Ludington had made 8,300 trips, about 28 per day; carried 66,000 passengers (average load...
Turning west, the bandits made their way to Park Avenue. By this time police men in commandeered taxicabs were in pursuit. Shots stopped one, wounding two policemen and the driver. The fleeing taxi crossed the Harlem River into Manhattan and made its way to Riverside Drive, leaving two more wounded pedestrians in its wake. Up Riverside Drive it roared, pursued by police taxis. At Dyckman Street, twelve miles from the holdup scene, it was stopped by a truck. Policemen riddled it with bullets and flung open the doors. Out tumbled the taxi driver, dead, and inside were two dead bandits...
There was fog in the morning and he planned to taxi the 15 miles to Muroton, wait there for clearer weather. When he tried to start, he found carburetor trouble, tied the plane to the Shimushiru and tried to repair it. His efforts were unsuccessful. Finally it was necessary to tie the plane to the ship and tow it. Even this was a failure. The towline broke, the plane was saved ,only by the agile efforts...
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...South Nyack, N. Y. Mrs. Ida Barrett Wheaton, 55, relict of a War veteran whom she met by mail, heard that her new War-veteran-correspondence fiance, one Warren Harris, was weakening in his resolution to marry her. She packed her bags, hailed a taxi, directed the driver: "Walkerton, Indiana. Step on it!" At Walkerton she found her fiance was only 36 years old. Also she disliked her prospective mother-in-law. Therefore she directed the chauffeur to drive her back to South Nyack. Distance covered: 1,778 mi. Fare...