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Because the region into which the young flyer had headed was so vast, unknown and impenetrable, search was from the beginning regarded as largely useless. Nonetheless, a few attempts were made, and all future scientific expeditions through the Guianas or Venezuela were asked to keep an eye open. After five years of silence even Pilot Redfern's wife and father believed him dead, had given up hope that any trace of him or his plane would ever be found...
Even in a stock market buoyed with business recovery and inflation prospects, it is possible for the unwary investor to get his fingers burned. If, for example, a market-follower had bought 100 shares of American Can on Oct. 22, 1935, he would have invested $14,962. A corresponding flyer in Continental Can on Nov. 20, 1935 would have cost $9,925. As last week's market closed, 100 shares of American Can were worth $12,300 and 100 shares of Continental Can were worth $7,900. On the two investments, the buyer would...
...year and four months in the air, has made 120 trips to foreign nations, has passed through the U. S. Customs more than 2,000 times. One of the few pilots in the world licensed to fly any kind of plane, he holds more world records (ten) than any flyer in the world, has never had an accident...
...white private car. Because natives along the barren right-of-way are in the habit of prying up steel rails to beat into swords and spearheads, ordinary trains travel only about 10 m.p.h., take three full days to make the trip. Pride of the line is the Addis Ababa flyer, a weekly express that in the dry season covers the 494 miles in 36 hours. Nothing moves at night...
...flyer of Australia, Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith has long pestered Imperial Airways to extend their airlines across the dangerous Tasman Sea to New Zealand. Long refused because Great Britain has not succeeded in building any airplane good enough for the job, he last week finally pestered British Aircraft, Ltd. into buying the right to manufacture the famed U. S. Sikorsky Clipper 8-42. Because it well knows 8-42 is far outmoded by the new Martin Clipper, which has three times as much carrying power, United Aircraft Corp. was delighted to get some...