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...sympathy, I take exception to the diminutive, and most strongly object to the 'dear.' At least as far as international law is concerned, I think that my country deserves a better name than 'dear little Holland.' " The area of the Netherlands is 13,208 sq. mi. (about three times the size of Connecticut). Its population: 7,625,938. The Dutch Kingdom in the East Indies is 733,642 sq. mi. (about one-fourth the size of the U. S.) in extent and has a population...
...Freddie Spencer, retired U. S. bicycle sprint champion; a 20 mi., motor-paced race at the New York Veledrome. The time...
...Morris Davis of Manhattan, Jewish deaf mute: the Metropolitan Association A. A. U.'s 50,000 meter (31 mi. 121 yd.) walking race. Time...
...Augustus Lindbergh (technical adviser) to fly the first ship, Pan American Airways, Inc., is serenely certain of far-flung publicity upon the opening of any new route. As thrice before, Pan American received it in full measure last week when Lindbergh piloted a Sikorsky amphibian from Miami 1,200 mi. over water to Cristobal, C. Z., inaugurating a new seven-day mail service from New York to Buenos Aires. The Caribbean hop cuts four days from the route previously used via Belize, Tela, Managua, David and Panama City. The new schedule calls for at least 1,000 mi of flight...
...Flyer-Artist Clayton Knight sketched the position of two "enemy submarines" driving toward the metropolis. He handed the chart to Lieut. Haydn P. Roberts, radio engineer, who inserted it in a cylindrical machine. Forty seven seconds later the drawing was reproduced in a receiving device at Mather Field, 75 mi. away, whence a squadron of bombers was sent to destroy the invaders. While the picture was being transmitted, Flyer-Artist Knight conversed with ground officers, elaborated on the scene. Based on a principle akin to telephotography, the radiophoto device was developed by Westinghouse Electric...