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...house in a hangar, the giant flying boat DO-X has been high & dry on the beach at Glenn H. Curtiss Airport, N. Y., since August. Riggers have been busy scraping and painting the hull, re-doping the great wing. Mechanics have reconditioned the twelve 600-h. p. Curtiss Conqueror motors, stepped them up 50 h. p. apiece. Last week Captain Friedrich Christiansen announced that DO-X would take off for the return flight to Europe via Newfoundland and the Azores about...
Unwanted by U. S. airway operators because of costly upkeep and a 30% tariff should they buy her, DO-X has no job waiting in Europe. An expensive experiment, she served as a model for her sister ships, DO-X II & III, younger but just as big. They fly for Il Duce's subsidized transport company, Aeroitaliano, will probably lug passengers between Genoa and Britain's Gibraltar...
...English 28 Memorial Hall TUESDAY, JUNE 7 (IX) Economics 25 Emerson 211 French A New Lect. Hall French 1 New Lect. Hall French 28 hf. Emerson A Geology 11 Rotch Bldg. Semitic 1 Emerson A Sociology 13 hf. Emerson A Zoology 15b Emerson A 2 P.M. (X) Military Science 1 Memorial Hall Military Science 3 Memorial Hall Naval Science 1 Memorial Hall Naval Science 3 Memorial Hall WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8 (IV) Anthropology 17 Harvard 6 Chemistry A Mallinckrodt MB9 Chemistry 3b Mallinckrodt MB23 Chemistry 21 Mallinckrodt MB23 Chinese 1 Sever 17 Economics 14 Sever 17 Engineering Sciences 7b Pierce...
Whiteville, X...
...fortnight Denmark refused Transamerican Airlines concessions for bases on its Eskimo colony, Greenland (TIME, April 18). That this implied a breakdown of the project was denied by company officials; negotiations would be continued, they said. But the Parliament of the Kingdom of Iceland (whose king is big King Christian X of Denmark) did not refuse to grant a 75-year franchise to Transamerican when Judge Gudmunder Crimson of Rugby, N. Dak., who in 1930 represented his State at the millennial of the founding of the Icelandic parliament, intervened. Judge Grimson went to Copenhagen to plead with the King of Denmark...