Trans Pacific Flight Beginning of an Aviation Romance
Kay Dunn, a pretty stewardess, falls for Ted Graham, a veteran transpacific pilot who wants to marry for life with planned efficiency. She worries his rules will cage her, escapes aboard a flight to Honolulu, and reunites with Ted amid storms and a meningitis outbreak tied to a serum mission.
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Kay Dunn
Thd Graham
Ted
Dickie
Kay
Honolulu
Midway
Illah
Smith Prepares to Fight FDR in Ocean Crisis
Ted and Kay confront a lost at sea scenario aboard a stranded ship. With signals failing and Honolulu lost, suspicion rises about Islah and Jack Slade seeking the gyropilot plans. A danger escalates as Islah reveals a gun and demands the plans before a cliffhanger ending.
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Ted
Kay
Onyan
Mr. Kay
Islah
Honolulu
Jack Slade
Zach
Illah
Ted Helms Navigates Pacific Storm To Midway
Ted commands a mariner flying boat through a ferocious Pacific storm as radio and direction finding fail. Kay seeks proximity, Ila h questions fate while Ted maintains calm leadership and uses triangulation to avoid drifting blind over the open sea.
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Ted
Honolulu
Midway
Beware Coughs From Common Colds That Hang On
An old ad-like fragment promotes Creomulsion as a remedy for persistent coughs and chest irritation. It claims Creomulsion goes to the seat of the trouble to soothe and expel phlegm, contrasting with other medicines.
Drivers Of School Buses Face State Control Debate
Discussion in Raleigh centers on moving school transportation to the State Highway and Public Works Commission funded by highway money. Advocates claim adult convict drivers could replace student drivers to save funds, but critics note safety records favor student drivers and warn of highway fund strain without new revenue.
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J. C. Baskervill
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh
State Highway and Public Works Commission
General Assembly
Highway Department
Highway Fund
Advisory Budget Commission
Highway Commission
School Commission
State Highway Commission
County Boards of Education
Board of County Commissioners
Manifold cleaning fixes offensive fumes from carburetor issue
Carbon in the intake manifold and poor carburetion can let fumes into an aged car. Sand blasting the inside surface of the manifold or replacing it, plus careful carburetor adjustment, will remedy the trouble.
Bamboo torture described in Malay States tale
A Malay States report details a cruel method where a bound victim is positioned atop a young bamboo shoot that gradually penetrates the body, an alleged use of bamboo as a torture instrument.
Mosses Act Like Sponges With Ground-Hugging Roots
Mosses absorb water and store it like a sponge yet stay close to the ground due to lacking water transport tubes. The small shoots rising from the plant are the spores that seed new plants.
Look and Learn By A GORDON
The text presents a quiz style set of questions and answers. It asks for the earths equatorial circumference about 24 896 miles and notes Abraham Lincolns assassination on April 14 1865. It defines a hypochondriac as someone morbidly low in spirits and gives rurals antonym as urban.
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Atlantic Ocean
Birth weight of a baby elephant
The birth weight ranges from 150 to 175 pounds. James Monroe served as the fifth president of the United States. Guncotton is made from cotton treated with nitric acid. A lapillus is a fossilized or fossil-like shell fragment or bead. The chief Atlantic seaport city of Canada is Halifax.
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United States
Atlantic
Canada
James Monroe
Fragmentary Notation Lists Sulphuric Acids and Stones
A fragment mentions sulphuric acids and a small stone in plural as volcanic or grassy fragments. The note places the item in Halifax Nova Scotia with minimal context and no clear event or action.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
Wake Forest Lights to Field for Night Games
Wake Forest reports Gore field lighting nearly finished and plans to host the Wake Forest Wofford game this Saturday night. Night games also slated with Clemson October 16 and Presbyterian October 21. United Airlines data show six month 1936 roster: 422 planes in service and 692 pilots among others.
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Wake Forest
Gore Field
Wake Forest-Wofford
Clemson
Presbyterian
United States
Hydraulic brakes upkeep requires regular oiling of moving parts
Hydraulic braking systems stay in top condition when moving parts are oiled at regular intervals, though this task is less critical than maintaining mechanical brakes.
Carolina to Tackle Fordham in Chapel Hill Homecoming
Raleigh Times reports the 1937 North Carolina football schedule set to include a game with Fordham at Chapel Hill possibly as a homecoming. It notes NYU Tennessee and Maryland will not appear next year and a full schedule release is pending later this week.
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Raleigh
Raleigh Times
University of North Carolin
Fham
Chapel Hill
New York University
Tennessee
Maryland
Global motor vehicle registrations rise unevenly
United States registrations have surged about 47 fold since 1904 while Great Britain shows a far smaller rise at roughly 116 times.
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United States
Great Britain
Airline trips in first half of 1936 reach high completion rate
Of all trips started by scheduled airlines of the United States during the first half of 1936, 94.5 percent were completed, indicating strong reliability in early commercial air travel.
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United Stat
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Tony
By William Ferguson
WEA Service
Gordon
Abraham Lincoln
Miles
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Carolina
Renee
Vicks Va
Johnny Murphy
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem, N.C
Charles Sickles
Hollywood
Camel Cigarettes
Benny Goodman
George Stoll
Rupert Hughes
E.S.T
C.S.T
M.S.T
P.S.T
Wabc-Columbia
Texas
Mary Carter
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