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...Westward Trend. The decision to make a western U. S. archbishop a cardinal runs with the current trend of the Roman Catholic organization to strengthen the Church in that region. Thus four years ago the International Eucharistic Congress conducted ' its magnificent pageantry at Chicago (TIME, June 21, 1926). Last month the National Eucharistic Congress met grandly at Omaha. Last week the National Council of Catholic Women was at Denver. And Cardinal Hayes took train from Manhattan to California, to celebrate with Archbishop Hanna and 50,-ooo worshippers the 75th anniversary of San Francisco's St. Ignatius College. From San Francisco...
...good reason for Catholicism's westward campaign: except in California and New Mexico, the Catholic proportion of the population is far below the one sixth average for the entire...
Regarding NYRBA's finances. . . . Something more than $4,000,000 was poured into an operating airway, 8,903 miles in length, spanning the West Indies, extending down the East Coast of South America, then westward over the Andes to Chile and northward to the Bolivian border: the largest fleet of the largest flying boats in the world were built especially for this service and backed up by a squadron of 22 auxiliary flying ships; a careful organization was developed and scattered through 17 countries to carry the work of the air line forward; most of this...
...Wright Whirlwind motor, without radio, flew eastward 3,610 mi. in 33 hr. 29 min. His fuel load was 425 gal., his average speed 107 m. p. h. An earth inductor compass, a magnetic compass on the conventional instrument board and maps were his navigating facilities. The westward flight, as every layman knows, is immeasurably more difficult largely because of prevailing headwinds. The Question Mark, radio equipped, had a 650 h. p. Hispano-Suiza motor and a top speed close to 160 m. p. h. Its instrument panel, with more than 30 dials including the invaluable "artificial horizon," offered practically...
...Germany, meanwhile, the Transportation Ministry chose to smile upon the achievement "which will enhance German prestige throughout the world." It was learned that von Gronau actually had cabled from Iceland for permission to fly on westward. This request was immediately followed by a message saying he had taken off. At the captain's home in Warnemunde, headquarters of the school, Frau von Gronau, unable to snatch a moment's rest, despairingly ordered the telephone disconnected...