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...only one to have all its old contract routes included in the new setup. American Airways' southern transcontinental route extends from Newark to Los Angeles by way of Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati. Louisville, Nashville. Memphis, Little Rock, Dallas, Fort Worth, El Paso. Of the former mail routes operated by independents, new contracts will be awarded between Salt Lake City and Great Falls, Detroit and Milwaukee, Washington and Cleveland. Among independents hoping for a piece of the new airmail subsidy is the Boston-Maine Airways operated by Paul Collins and Amelia Earhart, who want the Boston-New York mail contract...
...before it branches into two smaller fjords. One of these is the Nordals Fjord and 15 mi. farther inland, on the narrow sills of shore, are the two tiny villages of Tafjord and Fjoraa. For months the villagers have looked up at a great overhanging jut of rock that was beginning to crack of its own weight. Some day, they knew, it would fall and splash into the fjord. But no one guessed how big that splash would...
...last week the great mass of rock cracked decisively and fell, with awful deliberation. The roar of its slide woke the villagers in their beds, a few fishermen in their sloops offshore, and the operator in the power station who threw on his switch and lit the two villages and the moving mountainside. Splash! A small piece fell in the water, sent a six-ft. wall of water up the fjord, inundated the power station and plunged the villages into darkness again. The villagers rushed out of their houses toward the slopes. Splash! A bigger piece of mountain descended, heaving...
They noticed a large boulder on the shore of the lake, about a quarter of a mile from home. They decided that when the shell was abreast of that rock they were to skyrocket the beat...
Cassedy rested wearily over his oar and then looked up at Bissell. "I'm sorry," he said. "I thought we were getting behind and you were becoming panicky. I never did see that rock...