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...Navy's Los Angeles) flew from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, approximately 1,500 mi. farther...
...worried man. His favorite bird, Molly Pitcher, was missing. He had sent her to the pigeon flying at Chattanooga, Tenn., Kentucky Derby of U. S. pigeondom. Loosed there from Lookout Mountain, she had failed to fly home. Ross was sure she knew the way (600 mi.), and of the 500 war couriers under his care, she is one of the fastest. Last year in the Grand National race at Danville, Va., she was second...
Home of pigeon-flying is Belgium. In the first half of the 19th Century, fanciers banded together, formed clubs to breed a fast racing bird. Today Belgium has 300,000 fanciers, seven million carriers. Greatest annual event is a race held over the concours national 500 mi. from Toulouse to Brussels. Winners are painted in oils. Many a proud household has a stuffed champion over the mantelpiece. Belgian patriots last month celebrated the centenary of Belgium's independence with a pigeon race. Starting from Algiers, the birds flew across the Mediterranean, over France, a distance of 1,000 mi...
...owned the following items, set down the approximate price in dollars and cents for which you would sell them, and the sort of purchaser you would select: (a) Ford coupe which had run 5,000 mi. (b) Basic patent which will reduce the cost cf manufacturing shoes 20? a pair. (c) Secret process for manufacturing a drug which will definitely cure cancer. (d) Ten acres of land in a good farming section of Iowa...
Derby. Pilot Lee Gehlbach, whose low-wing Command-Aire set the pace throughout most of the All-American Air Derby (TIME, Aug. 4) finished an easy winner at Detroit last week, took the $15,000 first prize. His elapsed time for the 5,541-mi. flight around the continent: 43 hr. 35 min. 30 sec. Lowell Bayless, flying a Gee-Bee biplane, came second, four hours slower; Charles Meyers in a Great Lakes, third. Eight of the original 18 starters were forced to abandon the race...