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Amelia Earhart was born 39 years ago in Atchison, Kans. Her father was a lawyer and railway claim agent. She went east to study at Columbia University, then west to be with her parents, who had moved to Los Angeles. In California. Amelia saw many more airplanes than in Kansas. The idea of flying excited her. Famed Captain Frank Hawks took her up for her first flight. In 1918 she made her first solo, after ten hours of instruction. Two years later she set a woman's altitude record...
...dramatic enough that the Premier of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, the Vice Premier, and the Mayor of Bukhara were ousted from their jobs last week. The Premier's brother had meanwhile committed suicide. Over in White Russia, where the President killed himself fortnight ago, it was Railway Commissar Nikolai Vladimirsky who committed suicide last week. A further shake-up in Red Army circles, following the execution of Marshal Tukhachevsky and seven generals...
...book brutally picture the universal bewilderment at the War's end. Author Remarque describes his soldiers' return to their humdrum homes as a tragic surprise they cannot comprehend. Director James Whale, who adds in the film the signing of the Armistice in Marshal Foch's railway car, visions their homecoming as both tragic and comic...
Already Mr. Lewis had broadened the steel front by calling a strike in Bethlehem Steel's Cambria Mill at Johnstown, Pa., to cooperate with a strike which Railway Brotherhoods called on a little ten-mile railroad owned by Bethlehem and connecting its plant with the Pennsylvania Railroad. Boss Lewis proceeded to broaden the front still further by calling strikes in 17 coal mines owned by Republic, Youngstown and Bethlehem. The war which the Governors hoped to settle was getting bigger and uglier by the hour, yet up to them to settle it remained. For from the White House came...
...warm U. S. tourists bustled and Panamanian loafers ogled in the railway station at Colon, C. Z., one day last week, few noticed a swart, perspiring gentleman who descended from the Panama City train with his wife and five children in tow. But everyone turned in terror as with a sudden ccr-a-a-c-k a fierce-eyed fellow lashed out at him with a horsewhip. Soon the two were grappling for a revolver, rending the air with torrid Spanish curses. Police intervened and hustled both men off to jail...