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Arriving at Matanuska Valley, 125 mi. inland from Seward, each transplanted family will get a 40-acre tract, a log cabin, livestock and farm equipment. They will have 30 years to pay the Government $3,000, with 3% interest, the first payment due in four years. The cabins will have built-in furniture, running water. A physician, dentist and Red Cross nurse will be in attendance. Warmed by 20 hr. per day of summer sunlight and wet by heavy rains, Matanuska loam yields whopping crops. The Japanese Current keeps winter temperatures well above those of northern Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin...
...mi. run will take 52 hr. - 6 hr. less than the old schedule. Regular basic fare is $24, plus $5 for a berth, upper or lower. Built by General Motors, the nitecoach has berths for 25 including five double-berths 47 in. wide, which cost $7. Single berths are 29 in. wide, 6 ft. long...
...London last week was exhibited a midget plane known as the Drone: 16-h.p. motorcycle engine, cruises 50 mi. on a gallon of fuel, lands at 25 m.p.h., flown without dual instruction. Price...
Rather than risk a crash landing in rough terrain, he decided to return to Washington, radioed Boiling Field to have a crash, crew and ambulance ready. Covering the 85 mi. without difficulty on two motors, he circled the field, glided in with one wing high, made a one-wheel landing which resulted in nothing more serious than a groundloop. Army flyers called the landing "a thing of beauty." Few minutes later Pilot Carmichael took off in another plane with three of his passengers, set them down safely in Detroit next morning...
...goodwill, for science, and for publicity, Amelia Earhart Putnam set out from Los Angeles one day last week to fly nonstop to Mexico, D. F. (1,700 mi.). The prospect of a visit from the world's No. 1 woman aviator so excited Mexicans that most Government employes were given a holiday, a special postage stamp issue was arranged, and swarthy Foreign Minister Emilio Fortes Gil prepared to greet the lady in the name of the Republic...