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Last week the U. S. watched two of its distinguished public servants let their hair down and breathe hard in a fierce family squabble over the issue of whether Republican incumbents or Democratic hopefuls should administer 133 sq. mi. of remote tropic islands containing a population, mostly Negro, barely large enough to fill two thirds of the University of West Virginia's football stadium...
...Poorhouse." Despite their respective advantages in size and population, Kent County, R. I. (174 sq. mi.) and Granite City, Ill. (25,000 pop.) would have to devote themselves exclusively and persistently to murder, rape, arson, embezzlement and kidnapping to make the stir which the Virgin Islands have created during the past year. Three beauteous tropic specks off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands have helped split a President's Cabinet, drawn a steady stream of investigators and newshawks, kept themselves prominent in the nation's Press by as fantastic a comedy of political manners...
Almost as big as the Sikorsky and Martin transoceanic Clipper ships, the new Boeing is said to weigh 30,000 Ib. loaded, carry six tons of bombs, have a top-speed of 250 m.p.h., a ceiling of 25,000 ft., a range of 2,500 mi. without refueling. Actual performance figures were secret...
...part in last week's shooting remained uncertain. Some dispatches had him on his way to the scene of the fighting "by caravan" from Tibet. But certain it was that on the scene was an old and faithful Wu mi, Wu's infatuated right-hand man, Mr. Pai Chien-wu, himself a descendant of an 8th Century poet. What happened...
...Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine at St. Louis in 1930-unofficial because their instruments failed to satisfy the National Aeronautical Association. When the Colonels Key finally landed July 1 with two records in the bag, they had made some 75 refueling contacts, flown more than 50,000 mi...