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Royal Escape. Nervous Britons who frown upon the hardy diversions of their Prince of Wales were chilled last week by the crash of a Royal Air Force plane which had just carried the Prince from Khartum to Cairo, on his way home from South Africa. A flying officer and an aircraftsman (pilot and copilot) were killed. Shocked, Edward of Wales was not unnerved. Well aware of the flying tradition that prescribes the "army cure"* he announced he was impatient to get home and wanted his personal pilot to pick him up at Marseilles. British airmen applauded. Pilot and an escort...
...Labor Department arbitrarily sets up 1926 employment as 100% against which to reckon the rise and fall of employment. Last September before the stockmarket crash U. S. employment had reached 99.3%. Two months later it was down to 94.8%. In December it dropped to 91.9%, in January, to 90.2%. In February a gain of 1/10 of 1% was hailed as a "turning-of-the-corner." But for March, as revealed last week, employment had dropped down to 89.3%, lowest index since the Labor Department began to compile reports...
...soup atmosphere over Jersey City, narrowly missing rooftops. Pilot John Salway saw a chance to land in a meadow, saw too late the wires that marked it as the county's 200-acre power plant. A wingtip sheared a 132,000-volt wire. A flash, a crash, a geyser of flaming gasoline ended the episode...
Many an "unexplained" crash of aircraft might be traced to a loosened airfoil control, a weakened cable, faulty lubrication, dirty fuel. To blame: the mechanic. A fact: mechanics are frequently youngsters. An act: last week Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, ruled: "The minimum age requirement for any class of mechanic's license is 18 years . . . the lowest we can permit while keeping in mind the highly important part the mechanic plays in the safe operation of aircraft, and the need for constant vigilance...
...Francisco speculators, badly hurt when Bancitaly collapsed in 1927, had hardly recovered when last fall's crash took place, carrying Kolster through a decline much greater than the average. Perhaps for this reason, plus the fact that there is never a large short interest in San Francisco stocks, trading for the first quarter was approximately 20% below that of the first three months last year. But San Francisco brokers, unperturbed, confidently await full development of "The Empire of the West...