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...east-west transcontinental record. It was the first such flight ever made in full daylight. The plane was the Travel Air Mystery S, low-wing monoplane, powered with a supercharged Wright Whirlwind engine (TIME, Feb. 24). Elapsed time, including fuel stops at Columbus, St. Louis, Wichita, Albuquerque, and Kingman was 14 hr. 50 min. 43 sec.-faster by 3 hr. 52 min. than the record set three months ago by Lieut.-Colonel Roscoe Turner. Average flying time was 179 m.p.h., sometimes as high as 240. Pilot Hawks complained of headwinds over most of the course, varying between...
...leaders are J. M. Kingman '15, head boys worker at Lincoln House in Boston, and Sidney Lovett, Yale '13, pastor of the Mt. Vernon Street Church in Boston...
...Interior Department's reclamation service. Thirty miles of railroad must first be laid through a desolate rock-strewn wilderness and a town for 6,000 workmen built on the brink of the gorge. The prospect of Boulder Dam brought land booms at Las Vegas, Nev. and Kingman, Ariz. But so slow has the government been in getting started that these have mostly collapsed. Last week a gold strike outside Kingman made speculators forget Boulder...
...John Kingman '15, President of the Greater Boston Federation of Neighborhood Houses wrote the following memorandum on the proposed clinic: "The whole matter of medical and dental examinations was brought up at the Lincoln House Directors' Meeting last Tuesday. There was so much interest that it was felt that the service was sufficiently important to have a special cooperating committee...
...Kingman '15 Henry Reiff '25, both experienced in service work, will give talks tonight at Phillips Brooks House at a 7.30 o'clock meeting for all men interested in social service. They will explain the nature of the duties of the Harvard workers. W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, will not be able to speak as originally planned...