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...been carried by United Air Lines via Chicago and Salt Lake, a source of much satisfaction to United and much grief to Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., which flies to Los Angeles via Kansas City with relatively small mail loads. Last summer T. & W. A. put into service super-swift Northrop monoplanes which cut the transcontinental flying time down to 24 hr. for mail. Last week T. & W. A. had its reward. Los Angeles mail was rerouted by the Post Office to T. & W. A., the company's space contract upped from 225 Ib. to 750 Ib. per plane...
...beginning of the 17th lap of the Thompson Trophy Race at Chicago last year Capt. Arthur H. Page, U. S. M.C., led the field by nearly a full lap in his swift Curtiss-Hawk. Then, without warning, the ship dove out of line at 200 m. p. h., crashed its pilot to death. No satisfactory explanation of the tragedy was ever reached; but many onlookers, including David S. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, suspected carbon monoxide. The same hazard-odorless, colorless CO gas from the engine exhaust, soaking into the pilot's blood until lack...
...could not remain this way long. Now at the end of the present season come the stories. New York University has been indulging in a "high pressure' game, Columbia's swift rise in the football world is investigated and professional tactics are found to be the reason, the University of Southern California jails one of its players because he was suspected of divulging plays, and Navy comes out for open proselyting of secondary school athletes. Get players "who average fifteen pounds heavier than the present run of material" says the Annapolis athletic director...
...Chicagoans, even of the select 300 who attended the Oriental Institute's opening, could begin to comprehend the myriad minute implications of the million-&-one mummies, skeletons, sculptures, potteries, cuneiform tablets and other miscellaneous objects with which the new building was nearly packed. Yet even an early Swift or Cudahy would have understood and taken solid satisfaction from Dr. Breasted's prize exhibit - a monster, 40-ton stone bull, set up in the main (Egyptian) hall facing the big bronze gates. No U. S. bull was ever like this one, with magnificent wings, a beard, three sets...
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