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...five years inspecting beaches & deserts, finally picked out Daytona Beach, Fla. as the place best suited to his purposes. Wind and rain last spring delayed his sprint for weeks, finally prevented Sir Malcolm from making more than a picayune world's record of 276 m.p.h. He began the search again. Whether or not Sir Malcolm Campbell decides he wants to go faster in the future, it was at least clear last week that his search for a scene of activity had really ended. Of Bonneville Salt Flats, which is likely to be the centre of most important auto speed...
...miles back to town, got there 48 hours later. Organizing a rescue party, they sped back to their car, found only a penciled note. Mother and daughter, unable after two days and nights to endure the heat any longer, had wandered off into the trackless sands in search of water...
...returned to Arabia after the War he was given as guide and traveling companion Faris ibn Naif es-Sa'bi, gentle-eyed, black-bearded Bedouin nobleman, "the truest friend I have ever known.'' With Faris he drove from Damascus over the hard, dry, gravel uplands in search of Amir Fuaz, witnessed the unfolding of Faris' romance with a young shepherdess, Tuema, encountered on the way. When the two travelers pledged Tuema their protection, she let them sleep in her tent without fear, knowing that they would not break their word. Later Carl Raswan learned to understand...
...appeared, was clearly impossible. Because the flag followed them wherever they went, U. S. citizens were free to risk not only their own but their nation's safety by traveling through war zones on belligerent ships. With its great navy, Britain blocked U. S. trade with Germany by search & seizure, took no U. S. lives in the process. U. S. vexation was largely assuaged by the fat profits rolling in from Allied buying. Attempting to meet blockade with blockade. Germany resorted to submarines, unavoidably drowned a few hundred U. S. citizens, gave the U. S. a legal pretext...
...settlers dry up and drive them out; he worked in the wheat fields and on a Columbia River steamboat, met the six-fingered Indian friend of his boyhood just before the Indian was murdered. Deciding that Luce's father had killed the Indian. Clay set out in search of him, met Luce again, learned that, for reasons he found understandable, she had killed not only the Indian boy but the gambler years before-the gambler for whose death mean but innocent Wade Shiveley had been imprisoned, harried in the mountains, and finally lynched...