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...dead." Debt revision produced a deafening Capitol chorus. Idaho's Borah: "I'm opposed." Oregon's McNary: "I'm against." Mississippi's Harrison, Tennessee's McKellar, Georgia's George (in close harmony) : "We're opposed." Wisconsin's La Follette (solo) : "I'm not for." Democratic House Leaders Rainey, Collier and Byrns: "We're against." Last week it seemed very doubtful if even the combined efforts of Messrs. Hoover and Roosevelt could move such a mountain of Congressional opposition. ¶ The 1933 deficit is mounting at the rate...
Hardy Mrs. Mollison. Current idols of British hero-worshippers are the flying bride-&-groom, James Allan Mollison and Amy Johnson Mollison. Both have made distinguished record flights, notably his London-Cape Town and his recent solo westward across the Atlantic (TIME, Aug. 29). Last week Britons went wild with delight when Mrs. Mollison beat her husband's Cape Town record by 10½ hours, making the flight from Lympne, on the Kent coast, in 4 days, 7 hr. It was an amazing exhibition of stamina. Flying a light Puss Moth named The Desert Cloud she landed only four times, caught three...
Self-Help. Over Los Angeles Pilot Paul Munro, flying solo, set the controls of his Curtiss Robin, crawled aft in the cabin, seized a fuel hose dangling from a : nurse ship. He helped himself to 132 gal. of gasoline, returned to his cockpit, flew on. Seven times Pilot Munro repeated the performance, landed only 43 min. short of a new (38 hr.) solo duration record because of a long-distance quarrel with the nurse pilot...
...famed family with mixed Irish, Hebridean, Spanish and Norse blood, Thomas Edward Lawrence was one of five sons. His childhood was spent in Scotland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, France. Hampshire. His family moved to Oxford and he went to school there. At 13 he began a series of solo bicycle tours, made a large collection of brass-rubbings from old monuments in country churches. At 16 he broke a leg wrestling with another boy at school. He said nothing about it, rode home at the end of the day on a bicycle. He has never grown since...
...present all U. S. transport pilots are being trained to comply with a new Department of Commerce order effective Jan. 1. After that date all pilots in interstate passenger service must: 1) have logged 1,200 hr. solo in the last eight years, 500 hr. cross country; 2) have 75 hr. solo night flight; 3) in a hooded cockpit, maneuver a plane through turns, banks, climbs, spirals, recover from stalls, spins, skids, slips, and head the plane on a specified course...