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...caviar, furs and mail. Having greater speed but less range than the single-motored pioneers of the route, this red and blue giant was scheduled to stop for fuel at Fairbanks, Alaska. By week's end it had not reached this far-northern outpost. Approaching the Pole in sub-zero temperature, it had battled tremendous winds and ice. One motor had failed. Then the radio went silent and it eventually became apparent that the ship was down somewhere between the Pole and Alaska. Since six weeks' rations were aboard and there is plenty of room to land...
...Millions of years ago a huge lava flow crept across south central Idaho, moving south, filling in canyons, leveling off the countryside. When the flow ceased, the upper crust cooled and hardened, while the lower lava continued flowing. Along the buried canyons the sub-lava flood tore out everything it could carry along, leaving vacant spaces roofed over by the cold crust. As the material weathered it began to collapse. This is now taking place on Robertson's farm...
...President replied that he would not consider enlarging his Cabinet for the sake of any single pressure group like the doctors. He hinted, however, that he was considering this idea: that a sub-Cabinet officer like Josephine Roche, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of the Public Health Service, might well supervise all the public health and maternal and child welfare activities of the Government, now scattered in the Treasury, Interior, Commerce and Labor Departments...
There probably would be a Secretary of Social Welfare in the Cabinet who might be a doctor, like Hoover's Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, Coolidge's Hubert Work. There might be a sub-secretary in charge of health, analogous to President Roosevelt's Josephine Roche...
Prime Minister Chamberlain next showed the King a list of his new Cabinet and sub-Cabinet down to the most obscure, unpaid assistant Government whip. At 5 p. m. that same day every one of these was summoned to the Palace to take his oath of office in strict order of precedence. A meeting of the Privy Council (His Majesty's advisers, including the whole Cabinet) was then held...