Wrights Had Almost as Much Trouble as SST Proponents
Wright diary details the first Kitty Hawk flights on December 17 1903. Orville Wright reports engine and rudder issues, a 12 second trial, and later four flights with the longest 59 seconds covering 52 feet. By December 19 they pursued rights, while US Army later bought their flyer in 1909. The piece contrasts early aviation struggles with modern supersonic hype.
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Jewel
Orville Wright
Bishop Wright
The
Enquirer
Dayton Journal
Cinn
Tribune
Kitty Hawk
N.C
Willowe
Orville
Jesse Ward
Norfolk
N.Y. World
Woman’s Home Companion
Daniels
Scientific American
Century Magazine
U.S
Western Union
Milton
Behan Brother Boat Fired On Shoreham Houseboat
Brian Behan brother of Brendan Behan said a houseboat was fired on Tuesday while he his wife and three daughters were aboard. He blamed a political maniac and noted he is 42 and studying English history at Sussex University. Betty Jo Dake discusses Salvation Army Christmas Appeal on KCRG Radio.
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Shoreham
England
UPI
Brian Behan
Tate
Brendan Behan
Betty Jo Dake
The
Cedar Rapidy Salvation Army
Kcrg Radio 1600
Paper clips save Washington state 27.80 every two weeks
Ray Lansing, chief cashier for the state department of revenue in Olympia, reports that the state saves 27.80 every two weeks in paper clips. Paper clips from daily checks fill wastepaper baskets in five weeks, with one basket holding about 46 360 clips. at six cents per hundred, the total equals 27.80.
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Olympia
Wash
Ray Lansing
State of Washington
Lansing
Department of Revenue
Cathedral to buy 12th century tract at auction
The cathedral and college argued over a 12th century manuscript likely to return to Salisbury. Sotheby’s planned sale listed The Sermons of St Augustine, written over 800 years ago, priced around 3600 dollars before a last minute bid. Japan imports 90 percent of Alaska's mineral exports.
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London
Salisbury
College
Ita
St. Augustine
Alaska
Japan
Alasago
Waska
Sus
Firms pledge nondiscrimination against veterans in hiring
In Los Angeles, more than 50 Southern California firms joined a pledge not to discriminate in hiring against veterans with less than honorable discharges and to oppose firing resisters, amid protests over the Vietnam War. The move was spearheaded by the Move for Vietnam Peace and the Cats Perspire chapter of Business Executives.
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UPI
California
Southern California
Move For
Lpads
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