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...Navy crew: a 1½-mi. race against Columbia, at Annapolis...
...weeks. He had been sick (TIME Dec. 21). His conducting arm had failed him. He had had to cut short his season go back to Italy for treatments. The rumor that he might never come back had never quite been downed, yet he had come back, traveled 4,500 mi. from Italy to help unemployed U. S. musicians. "The audience stood up when he came on stage. It rhapsodized over him during intermission. It suddenly started cheering when the concert was done. For once Toscanini was disarmed, appeared not ungrateful for appreciation...
...Lest the 500 Ib. of dead metal drop and injure some one on the ground, he swung his crippled ship out over the Mississippi River, banked steeply, shook the engine off, watched it fall down, down, down safely into the water. After requesting a relief ship, he maneuvered 25 mi. on two motors to an emergency landing field. When the relief ship arrived, some of the passengers said they enjoyed the experience, all of them flew on to Chicago, less than one hour late...
...Distance: 11,000 mi. Messrs. Post & Gatty flew around the world, 15.474 mi. in 8 days...
From Indiana to Jersey, In Mexico: 1,500,000 acres of oil land (principally in the Tampico territory), 750 mi. of pipe lines, 65 mi. of railroads. In Venezuela: 3,100,000 acres of oil & gas land in the Lake Maracaibo District. On the island of Aruba, D. W. I.; a refining plant of 115,000-bbl. daily capacity. At Hamburg: an asphalt plant. On the high seas: 29 tankers of 1,700,000-bbl. capacity. These are the principal foreign properties of Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co., 95%-owned by Standard Oil of Indiana. Last week Indiana...