Wiley Post Profile Highlights One-Eyed Pilot’s Feats
The article recalls Wiley Post, famed Burbank based aviator, who learned to fly after losing sight in one eye. It notes his exceptional perception, caution driven by instinct, and a desert emergency where a new motor was installed after a forced landing. Post avoids alcohol and tobacco and maintains peak fitness.
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Associated Press
Wiley Post
Burbank
Calif
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Post
South Dakota reports record tax revenue from gasoline and cigarettes
State Treasurer A. C. Goodhope announced the fiscal year ending June 30 set an all time high for state receipts from four cent gasoline tax at 5.398 million dollars and from cigarette tax at 402 thousand, while malt tax and license fees totaled about 24 thousand. June figures show cigaret gains but gasoline drop from 1930.
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Pierre
South Dakota
A. C. Goodhope
Radio Features List of British Leaders Broadcast
A London mass meeting on arms and the people will be heard in an American broadcast next Saturday morning with Ramsay MacDonald Stanley Baldwin and David Lloyd George as speakers and Field Marshal Sir William Robertson as chair. The program, on WABC CBS from 4 20 to 9 45 am, is part of a busy New York radio schedule featuring aviation and school programs across NBC and CBS networks with various performers and speakers through the evening.
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