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...from Paris' Le Bourget Field, into the dawn one day last week flew a great Dewoitine monoplane built for Perfumer François Coty. Its long, tapered wings stretched out 95 ft. Its Hispano Suiza engine roared with 650 h. p. Its narrow fuselage bore the legend Trait d'Union ("Hyphen"). In the cabin were short, squint-eyed Joseph Marie Lebrix, onetime flying partner (now enemy) of Dieudonné Coste; famed Aerobat Marcel Doret, and Mechanic René Mesnin. They were bound nonstop for Tokyo, 6,032 mi. away, farther than any plane had flown in a straight...
Although the flyers refused to discuss it, observers guessed that if the Tokyo flight were successful the Trait d'Union would fly on across the Pacific and attempt to smash the Winnie Mae's record around the world. A spare engine waited in Tokyo; another spare engine in Manhattan...
...privilege of week-ends were suspended--the result? The students would become rebellious, a human trait, in that they would be reluctant in doing the work. Then the scholastic standing of the school would go down; not up. Some other way must be found to raise the scholastic standing of Hebron...
Steffens' most noteworthy trait was his ability as an interviewer. From the hardest-boiled bosses he wrung the most astounding admissions. Modestly he explains his success by attributing it to a realization of his own sinfulness. Once he had stepped out of the reformer's attitude; "I was never again mistaken for an honest man by a crook. . . . The politicians . . . and the consciously corrupting business leaders have ever since acted with me upon the understanding that I was one of them. It facilitated my work; it explains much of my success in getting at the facts...
...Tall (6 ft. plus), with thin brown hair, careful in dress and somewhat pompous in bearing, Mr. Hughes frequently walks the four miles between home and office, makes the trip in about an hour and five minutes. He considers his wife "51% of our private corporation." A remarkable Hughes trait is an unbending and unbroken silence on the matter of his first given name. He is always I. Lamont; what the "I" indicates none will divulge. Mr. Hughes's first Steel job (in 1897) was with Carnegie Steel. In addition to a long period of field work...