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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 13, 1946

Page

3

Test Pilot Woolams Aims To Break Sound Barrier

Wright Field Ohio NEA veteran pilot Jack Woolams 29 leads the XS 1 supersonic flight program. He plans to fly faster than sound in Bell XS-1 and faces potential danger as aviation history eyes a breakthrough beyond 760 miles per hour. Woolams has previously set altitude records and survived two bailouts while testing fighter planes.

Douglas Larsen Wright Field Ohio Nea Jack Woolams Woolams Bell Charles Lindbergh Air Force Lindbergh Army Air Force Army

Space Ship Dreamer Aims for Unknown Realms

Jack Woolams, a Niagara Falls resident, survived severe frostbite after an accident and now pursues supersonic flight and space travel. He believes a ship could reach the unknown regions between planets, with permission seen as a key obstacle. The XS-1 project and its 1500 mph goal were disclosed at Army Air Forces Materiel Command HQ.

Woolams Niagara Falls N. Y

Navajo Reservation Spans Vast New Mexico Lands

The world's largest Indian reservation covers about 16,000,000 acres in New Mexico, held by the Navajo Nation. This immense region defines Indigenous land use and regional identity within the state.

New Mexico

Grand Mufti Used Fake Passport in Trip Paris Says

The French foreign office said Haj Amin El Husseini boarded a TWA flight from Paris Orly on May 29 using a false passport issued by a Syrian legation in 1945. Informants claimed he traveled under the alias Narouf Daoualibi, listed as a Syrian lawyer living in Paris, and arrived in Cairo the same day.

Grand Mufti Paris Foreign Office Jerusalem Trans- World Airways TWA Orly Field Cairo Haj Amin el Husseini Fiydien Mutfti Mufti Narouf Daoualibi

Transit riders spend over a billion annually nationwide

Passengers pay more than 1,296,900,000 dollars each year to ride Am er ica s urban transit system including subways street cars trackless trolleys coaches and gas buses in major cities.

Amereica

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