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...with weapons which seemed capable of penetrating the stoutest khaki cloth, and were." The place is at Lat. 2:25:30 North, Long. 63:45:31 West, in Brazil just east of the Venezuelan boundary. It is due south of Halifax, just above the Equator, and about 2,000 mi. from the Orinoco delta...
Beauharnois. The Committee had been investigating charges made last May by Alberta's M. P. Robert Gardiner regarding the relations of the Government to Beauharnois Power Co., of which Senator McDougald is board-chairman. In 1927 this company obtained permission from the Government to dredge a wide, 15 mi. canal, ostensibly as part of the proposed St. Lawrence Waterway, between Lake St. Francis and Lake St. Louis on the St. Lawrence River, the immediate purpose being to utilize the flow between the lakes for hydroelectric power. Projected cost of the power installations alone: $65,000,000. Projected horsepower...
...week to win the Edsel Bryant Ford Trophy for reliability in the National Air Tour (TIME, July 20). His easy victory over a field of 14 gave the Ford company its second leg of the current trophy (three consecutive victories gives permanent possession). Only once in the 6,590-mi. tour was Pilot Russell pressed for leading position, and then it was by Pilot James H. Smart flying another Ford, which finished second. Smart nearly caught up with Russell when the leader became lost over the mountains of Kentucky and failed to find Middlesboro. Later Russell had to fly back...
Other famed or inveterate air travelers: William Howard Gannett, 77, of Augusta, Maine,* retired publisher of Comfort who made a 19,000 mi. journey via Pan-American; Alden Freeman, 69, rich and eccentric philanthropist, "Honorary Consul-General of Haiti" (TlME, Feb. 16); Funnyman Will Rogers; Charles A. Levine, first transatlantic air passenger; George Nellis Grouse, Syracuse grocer, persistent Graf Zeppelin passenger and 'first flight fan" of domestic air lines...
...sighted, Dr. Eckener did not intend to push farther north. There was only the remotest possibility that he would venture to the Pole. More likely was the tentative course east to Northern Land, south to Cape Chelyuskin and back to Archangel via the Siberian Coast. Approximate distance: 6,200 mi. Estimated flying time...