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...Russian officials, the two flyers turned immediately to the business of refuelling the Winnie Mae and checking a course across the desolate Yablonoi Mountains to Blagovyeschensk. There was no time to celebrate the fact that they had come just half way around the world from New York (8,050 mi.) in 3 days, 19 hr. True, they were 28 hr. ahead of their "round-the-world-in-ten-days" schedule; true, too, that they had but eight hours sleep since leaving New York. But some of their most arduous traveling lay ahead of them over the unbroken forests of Siberia...
...noon-less than seven hours later-when the Winnie Mae sat down upon the airport at Harbor Grace. N. F., 1,153 mi. up the coast. Three irritating hours later, Winnie Mae shot out over the Atlantic, spanked along by a 30-mile breeze...
While President Hoover, back at his White House desk, strove to minimize the political significance of his 2,500-mi. Mid-West trip which ended last week, G. 0. Politicians who will conduct his campaign for re-election next year balanced up the trip's profit & loss. On his excursion the President behaved like a candidate, even if he did not talk like one. He took local Republican leaders aboard his special train for political hobnobbing. From the rear platform of his car he conversed easily with boys about dogs and fishing. He unbent to the point of making...
...Madison Timber Corp., putting a $1,000,000 price on land sought by the State, argued that their property was worth it, not entirely as timber perhaps, but as a potential summer resort. The President, they claimed, had given the region priceless advertising and had put in an 8 mi. road worth $200,000. and power and telephone lines worth another $100,000. They insisted that the presidential improvements enlarged the value of their timber land far beyond what Virginia was ready...
...Nautilus. The liner President Roosevelt headed for the trouble. In the rocky sea it took all day long to throw a line between the Nautilus and the Wyoming. By dark the hawser was snug and, as other ships turned to their proper business, the Wyoming began an 850-mi. tow of the Nautilus to Queenstown, Ireland and repairs...