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...Mile 26 on the Richardson Highway near Fairbanks, the Army is rushing construction of one of the world's biggest airfields-a super super-bomber base with three-mile runways. The Army is building a spur rail line to serve the base, is pouring concrete barracks at Elmendorf Field, improving Ladd Field, repairing installations at Nome. At Adak and Attu in the Aleutians, the Navy is spending $14 million on construction...
Biggest army bases in Alaska proper are at Anchorage on the south coast and Fairbanks in the heart of the territory. Moderate in climate, Anchorage is likely to be Army's big home base, and its Elmendorf Field is under construction. Fairbanks is only 356 miles up the Government-owned Alaska Railroad from Anchorage, but Ladd Field at Fairbanks has been laid down squarely in the midst of Alaska's 'toughest winter weather. The ground thaws on top but always remains frozen two or three feet down. There, working three shifts in Alaska's 24-hour...
Death, which often fluttered close to the wings of Lieut. Irvin A. Woodring, last of the Army's "Three Musketeers." overtook him last week at Wright Field. Dayton, Ohio. Week before at the same field it had flung to earth another crack Army pilot, Captain Hugh M. Elmendorf. Both men were performing their routine work of testing experimental planes. Captain Elmendorf crashed with his spinning pursuit ship. Lieut. null fighter snapped to bits in mid-air when something, possibly the propeller, broke...
Hialeah racetrack, at Miami, is controlled by immensely rich and patrician Joseph Early Widener of Philadelphia who owns 16 Rembrandts, a cemetery for his deceased racehorses at Elmendorf, near Lexington, Ky., and has Tautz of London come over twice a year to see to his clothes. Vice-chairman of the U. S. Jockey...
...about humans surround the chronicle of Tommy Boy. His last owner, the gambler's mistress, is deeply attached both to Tommy Boy and to a young gambler who, regenerate in the last reel, informs her stable-hands of the plot which he has helped to formulate. Shots of Elmendorf, Joseph E. Widener's farm near Lexington, Ky.; the 1931 Derby at Churchill Downs; of Vice President Curtis (a onetime jockey) marching down the clubhouse steps; and the sounds of a radio announcer mingling the names of real Derby horses (Spanish Play, Sweep All) with fictitious ones (Tommy...