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...export enough to pay Reparations and War Debts from their profits. This much is certain: The Runciman emergency tariffs will deal a major blow to the exports of Germany and Russia, a minor blow to U. S. exports (not to mention others), and may throw further out of gear the already groaning mechanism of Reparations and War Debts...
...thing to land a plane on its belly because you have deliberately dropped your landing gear, as did Herndon & Pangborn when they flew the Pacific. It is another and highly disconcerting thing to discover unexpectedly that you must land like that when your Big Boss is your passenger. Last week Lieut. Elwood Quesada (of the Army's original Question Mark endurance team) had that experience over Long Island. His passenger, Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, wanted to land at North Beach to keep a Manhattan engagement. Over the airport Lieut. Quesada pushed the pumphandle that...
Soon after they left Samishiro Herndon cut a wire which let the plane's landing gear drop into the sea, reducing the load by 300 Ib. and the head resistance by 17%. It meant that wherever they came down they would have to land the plane on its belly...
...soil, most of them were in overalls or shirt sleeves. Theirs, they needed no realist to tell them, was a hopeless gesture against the two major parties but at least it was a gesture springing from strong political convictions that U. S. economics are today sadly out of gear...
...couple of immigrants going home." Few days after the "immigrants" start, beauteous Socialite Ruth Nichols followed in her fast Lockheed. Forced to land into the setting sun at the St. John airport and partially blinded by the glare. Miss Nichols overshot the field, nosed over, badly damaged the landing gear of her plane, escaped serious injury. But flyers and their fates held scant concern for St. John that day. For in the forenoon fire broke out on the town's busy waterfront, swept through blocks of piers and grain elevators, destroyed the Canadian Pacific steamer Empress and several harbor craft...