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...south of the centre line of the river from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic. This could readily be done, without great additional cost to taxpayers, by crediting England with the purchase price on her War Debt."* At one sweep Mr. Ten Eyck would add approximately 177,398 sq. mi. to U. S. territory, including New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the southern part of Quebec...
Early last September a plow-nosed man with a beard alighted from a bus at Whittier, in the Great Smoky Mountains, 60 mi. west of Asheville, N.C. Soon most of Whittier's 287 inhabitants knew him by sight. He was affable and talkative, gave his name as Reynolds Rogers. He bought a pair of blue overalls, put on an old sweater and cap, cut himself a tall staff and began taking walks in the hills. He built a lookout in a tree on a knoll, a rude altar on another hillside. People living in the same boarding house with...
...From the apex to the south face is carved a rugged suggestion of swept-back wings. A revolving beacon surmounts the shaft. For the present at least, the beacon will be more of a landmark to mariners than to airmen. The nearest airport is army's Langley Field, 80 mi. north. The nearest airway passes some 200 mi. to the west...
...Greenland Wai encountered no serious trouble until crossing the Bay of Bengal. About 150 mi. off Rangoon a water pump broke. Down came the plane upon a tossing sea. An S O S brought a British steamer which towed her into Rangoon. As casually as before, the plane flew on to Colombo, Bombay, Bagdad. Athens, Rome, across the Alps in a storm to Friedrichshafen...
Into the desert 1,000 mi. north of Adelaide the Australian Government was sending squads of engineers last week to build four landing fields at 100 mi. intervals between Alice Springs and The Granites. In The Granites, a wild, desolate territory, infested by savage blacks and savage insects, diggers had struck gold. Six expeditions were pushing toward the strike by truck, tractor, horseback, camel and by airplane. Every available ship was in demand to rush in food & water, rush out yellow dust...