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Across Georgia's boundary and through most of South Carolina the terrain is rolling pinewoods, fields of broomstraw, greywhite cotton acres ruled off with black furrows. Beyond Spartanburg, S. C. the passengers could see King's Mountain thrusting its razor back out of the foothills. From Charlotte to Greensboro, N. C. the carpet of earth is dotted with milltowns: a single, great smoke-belching building or group of buildings surrounded by straggling rows of little dwellings. At Winston-Salem, east of the course, rises the Camel Cigaret Factory. Then the course goes via Appomattox over the red clay...
Conclusions: Flying over established routes is 61% safer than a year ago; "miscellaneous" operations, 11% more dangerous; flying in general, 1.66% safer. A smaller proportion of accidents (57.14%) is blamable upon personnel* less upon motor failures (15.02%), less upon airplane failures (8.78%), more upon weather, darkness, airport & terrain...
...stowaways, one perhaps an official's stenographer. Perhaps, however, a couple larking at the hill were caught under the wreck. The men who, against harsh opposition, had fought for a lighter-than-air program for the Empire were dead. Parts of the ship were scattered over five miles of terrain. The huge twisted skeleton was broken in half...
...tiny Gipsy-Moth biplane from Croydon, Amy ("Call-me-Johnnie") Johnson landed last week at Port Darwin, Australia, a national heroine. Three days behind the record of Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler, Miss Johnson's 11,500-mi. flight in a little secondhand, patched-up airplane, over perilous terrain and sharky waters, with an infected hand and short on sleep, was yet an amazing feat. Said she at Surabaya, Java, before starting across the Timor Sea: "The less I think of this, the better I know this last stretch will be the biggest fright of my life...
...wolves have largely ceased to be a serious menace to humans, there are few organizations devoted to their slaughter though some western states offer wolf bounties. In France, where wolves still haunt the forests, there are still "wolf lieutenants"-landowners who, in return for protecting large portions of the terrain from wolves by maintaining packs of wolfhounds, are entitled to hunt government forests for wild boar. Among noted wolf lieutenants are two women, the Dowager Duchess d'Uzes and Mme Alice Abram Terras of Lambesc-Salen, who wears a man's uniform...