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...Buenos Aires last week roared six of the U. S. Army's new flying fortresses-four-motored bombers each manned by eight men. They had made the 5,225-mile flight in record time (34 hr. 14 min.) with only one stop at Lima, Peru. Purpose of the longest "good will" flight in Army aviation records was to represent the U. S. at the inauguration of Argentine President Roberto M. Ortiz (see p. 24)-conveniently scheduled three weeks after the good will flight of three Italian planes to Rio de Janeiro...
...many of these qualities. But it also has more mysticism and fewer fights, and in them victory goes to the bigger army. A strange book, only a few hundred pages shorter than Gone With the Wind, it takes place in an instant in time and is probably the longest work ever written about the happenings of a split second...
...pugnacious C. I. 0. American Newspaper Guild last week ended the longest strike in its history. Seven months ago the Scripps League Seattle Star hired A. F. of L. teamsters to supplant Guild office workers in its circulation department. That started the strike. After a four-day shutdown, the Star's, presses started up again, managed to get out a paper every day of the strike. Last week's armistice gave neither side the full fruits of victory. Reinstated were 45 editorial and advertising office Guildsmen. Nineteen circulation men, recently ordered reinstated by the National Labor Relations Board...
...conditions which affect the length of life in the lowly Daphnia carry over to man, and are reflected in human longevity, persons who lead very frugal lives until past middle age and then have generous living, may be expected to live longest. . . . People who have generous living until old age approaches and then have very frugal living or suffer real hardship, may be expected to have shorter lives...
...Luxembourg and the Saar to overcome through production quotas the disastrous effects of post-War overproduction. In the past dozen years it has been abandoned and revived, depending on the world demand for steel and on the relative production costs in the various countries (those that stayed on gold longest had their throats cut). In 1935 Great Britain signed up, leaving only the U. S., Russia and Japan as major nonmembers...