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...Pacific opened their drafts and started toward the plane's course. The next message was panicky, "We are landing in the sea. We have a rubber lifeboat but send help." Nothing but silence followed, for hours. At Wheeler Field, near Honolulu, Army planes were readied for the search. The three rescue ships talked back and forth in anxious, inaudible flashes. . . . Four and one-half hours after sending their last cry for help, Flyers Smith and Bronte planed down toward a thorny strip of land guarding a lagoon on the isle of Molokai* in the Hawaiian group. Bushes ripped their...
...period Persia barely escaped falling to the British Empire as a "mandate." Then the power of Soviet Russia gathered might, and the old Anglo-Russian struggle began again at Teheran. Finally the Government of Persia turned (or was swayed by British pressure) toward the U. S. (1921), in search of an administrator to restore shattered Persian finances. Soon the U. S. Secretary of State at that time, Charles Evans Hughes, suggested Dr. Arthur Chester Millspaugh as the man for Persia's money?or lack of it. The Doctor, then 38, had served the U. S. State Department as a routine...
...Peoria, Ill., one Mrs. Louis Schaer, suspected of shoplifting, quietly permitted the store detective to search her person for stolen articles. Nothing was found. Next she called over the floorwalker who had accused her and slapped his face so well that he fell to the floor...
...Paris, police agents found two old women living in great iron steam-boilers discarded by a factory. Each had a boiler-room 8 ft. long, 5 ft. wide, 4 ft. high, equipped with stove and, for shelving, boxes. Their food they got by diligent search of the public market garbage buckets. No wastrels, no disturbers of the public peace, the two old beldams were permitted to continue peacefully in their squalor...
...their nation-wide search for new silver-screen talent, the backers of the drive sent representatives to 37 universities, attracting approximately 15,000 aspirants for a trip to Hollywood...