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...such a factional fight, the convention would, as it did in 1924, turn to some outsider who had not figured in the fray. At Madison Square Garden the tired delegates went to West Virginia for their man, John William Davis. At the Chicago Stadium this year they might go, via Ohio, to the same State for a compromise native...
...from Newark Airport late at night, Pilot Reichers roared to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, in 6 hr. 19 min. As he taxied up the field, the plane's tail skid threw a rock through the fuselage, injuring the stabilizer controls. Quickly repairing the damage, he sped off for Paris via Dublin. When finally forced down by a cracked wing and fuel shortage, Pilot Reichers was within 150 mi. of his scheduled stop, 51 mi. from land...
Between 8 a. m. and 7 p. m. three minutes of London-Moscow talk cost $4.07, at other times $2.43. Bell system telephone operators said last week that they could not make a New York-Moscow telephone connection via London "because Moscow is not one of our designated points...
...Pilot Arthur Bussey of Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, advertised last week for four passengers to Europe in his trimotored Ford. The plane will hop via Harbor Grace, Newfoundland as soon as the four fares are booked. No publicity hunter himself, Pilot Bussey announced that he had received 40 inquiries from curioseekers, few genuine prospects...
...have been busy scraping and painting the hull, re-doping the great wing. Mechanics have reconditioned the twelve 600-h. p. Curtiss Conqueror motors, stepped them up 50 h. p. apiece. Last week Captain Friedrich Christiansen announced that DO-X would take off for the return flight to Europe via Newfoundland and the Azores about...