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...field between the house and the road, the wheat had come up and been harvested. Across the way corn stood four feet high. The inland meadows were dotted with piles of new hay. The cows looked fatter and sleeker than ever. These good sights came under the critical eye of Squire Franklin D. Roosevelt last week when he returned to his native Krum Elbow for the first time since that dark February day he left for Washington to assume the Presidency. "Fine! Perfectly fine," he said half to himself as he drove up & down the dirt roads and appraised...
...Planes can land safely on the inland ice so long as bright sunlight makes ripple-shadows on the surface. But on hazy days pilots must beware, as ice and sky merge, leaving no horizon...
...Lindberghs, Charles Augustus & Anne. spent last week flying their red-bodied, white-winged Lockheed monoplane around Labrador. From Cartwright, where they were guests of Hudson's Bay Co., they jaunted inland 25 mi. to Muskrat Falls, returned via Melville Lake. Another day they pushed up the coast 150 mi. until they found themselves in a soupy fog, then sat down at Hopedale. Mrs. Lindbergh exclaimed over the "wild picture of indescribable beauty" presented by Labrador's inland landscape. But, as nearly everyone knows, the Lindberghs were not on a sightseeing trip. They were in Labrador, en route...
When Col. Lindbergh points his Lockheed over Greenland's inland ice; when he takes the heavier, slower Fairchild, gets a radio bearing from the Jellinge and tries his hand at drilling through a fog wall into port-such exciting ventures will be the climax of an infinitely painstaking job which Pan American inherited a year ago. At that time the company hired an adventurous young British scientist named Harold George Watkins who previously had headed the British Arctic Air Route Expedition in Greenland for a purpose similar to Pan American's. Explorer Watkins took charge...
Long Dragon. Because the Yellow Dragon, broad and meandering, is too shallow for modern navigation, the commerce of the West courses into China chiefly up the Long Dragon, the Yangtze, which is deep enough for foreign steamers and war boats to sail 600 miles inland up to "The Chicago of China," Hankow. Last week the Yangtze rose at the rate of one foot per day until it was a foot higher than any dikes which existed two years ago, but still four feet below the tops of the 7,000 miles of new dikes built last year by hundreds...