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...Morrow did not need to tell her audience what all the world knew-that the crisply professional wireless messages from the plane had been tapped out by her daughter.* From Natal, Brazil, where they had ended their 1,875-mi. hop from West Africa, Mrs. Morrow's adventurous children flew up the Brazilian coast to Para, thence 900 mi. up the Amazon above lush jungle to Manaos. They proposed to be home in time to spend Christmas with their son Jon whom they had not seen since they left the U. S. last July...
...Fords were not wholly new models, but the 1933 model with improvements. Chief changes: 1) a new dual intake manifold to the carburetor to increase mileage 2½ mi. to the gallon, increase speed from 82 to 87 m.p.h., increase power 12%, improve pickup; 2) automatic thermostat that prevents warm water from the motor circulating through the radiator until the engine has warmed up, thereby improving cold weather starting; 3) windows that move not only up and down, but also slightly sideways to provide a slit for draftless ventilation; 4) a more stylish radiator grill; 5) increases...
Monstrous headseas washed roaring against the S. S. Manhattan off the Grand Banks, one evening last week. Overhead howled an 85-mi. nor'wester. Only three passengers were hardy enough to be aboveboard. One was Queena Mario, small, vivacious soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Another was her pet marmoset, Vibrato. The third was a Mrs. Florence Garson of Staten Island...
Fastest. Howling tailwinds blew one United Air Lines transport from Chicago to Newark (736 mi.) in 3 hr. 17 min., another from Cleveland to Newark (411 mi.) in 1 hr. 41 min., fastest passenger flights on record...
Reward. French Flyers Codos & Rossi made a world's record distance flight last August from New York to Syria (5,700 mi.), in anticipation of a 1,000,000 fr. prize announced by France's youthful Air Minister Pierre Cot. Having mortgaged themselves up to the hilt to raise some 750,000 fr. for expenses, Heroes Codos & Rossi learned last week that the Government, economizing, had changed its mind about the prize...