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Just before dawn broke over the Caribbean, Captain Wallace Culbertson gunned his four motors for the takeoff. Skimming along at 50 m. p. h. he spied a small launch directly in his path. Although he swerved, a wing pontoon grazed the launch and the big plane skidded in a wild half-circle. The fragile hull split open and water poured in. Twenty-two desperate men & women scrambled to escape by hatchways and portholes. When the Clipper sank up to the overhead wing, two passengers and a steward were trapped, drowned...
...Pilot Hughes immediately climbed. There he leveled off, tried to get a radio bearing, discovered his antennae had torn away in the takeoff. Nonetheless, he dashed on at 225 m.p.h., taking oxygen every five minutes. After an hour, as he whizzed over the Colorado River into Arizona, thick weather shut in around him, forced him to fly blind. Climbing another 3,000 ft., he found smoother air, came out into the clear over Santa Fe as his third hour ended. Hour later, he met night rolling in over Kansas...
...hundred miles and three-quarters of an hour after the takeoff they were through the black mountain peaks; below them lay Aduwa, scene of Italy's most galling defeat 39 years before, junction of the caravan routes of northern Ethiopia; Aduwa, to capture which Benito Mussolini had sent 280,000 men 2,500 miles at a cost of $160,000,000. Sprawled over three hills Aduwa was a collection of low-walled huts, some thatched, some roofed with corrugated iron, that housed some 3,000 souls. Count Ciano squinted down through his bomb sights and pulled the trigger...
...along the way, are matter-of-fact, good-natured, often amusing. Conscious of the patronizing attitude commonly felt about women who take part in masculine exploits, she resented it when female reporters asked her silly questions about clothing and lunches, was puzzled when the radio announcer, describing the takeoff, deliberately lied about the way she was dressed. She worked hard learning to operate the radio. Baffled by technical explanations, she pretended to understand, thinking as she had in school, "I'll get it all explained to me after class." Confused and uncertain in the presence of radio experts...
Like the Penn Relays, Drake's were distinguished by the performance of Negro sprinters. Ohio State's long, limber Jesse Owens placed a scrap of white paper 26 ft. from the broad-jump takeoff board, just 2 ⅛ inches short of the world's record made in Japan four years ago by Chuhei Namb. His legs twinkled down the takeoff. He shot into the air like a brown bullet. When he landed he was f of an inch short of Nambu's mark but his 26 ft. if in. was a new U. S. record. Next...