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[[image top left: men, children and livestock in flatland field]]

[[image bottom left: livestock pulling carts down narrow street]]
[[caption: BACK TO THE FARM GO THE "SINGING CARTS"]]

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[[caption]] LOCAL COSTUME - FAYAL[[caption]]

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[[caption]] Photograph by Manuel J. Mator. SOME OF THE GLAMOUR OF OLD WHALING DAYS SURVIVES[[caption]]

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Dixie Clipper Quits Azores for Lisbon
Europe-Bound Plane Refueled at Horta
By the United Press
HORTA, Azores, June 29. - Pan American Airways Dixie Clipper, carrying the first fare-paying passengers to Europe, landed here at 6:52 a. m. (New York time) today and took off for Lisbon, Portugal, on the second leg of its flight at 8:36 a.m.
The flight from Port Washington, N.Y. to Horta took 15 hours and 40 minutes. The clipper refueled here.
The Clipper took off from Port Washington, L.I. at 3:12 P. M. yesterday. The 4650-mile trip from the United States to Marseille, France is scheduled to take 48 hours.
The plane had the advantage of excellent weather and traveled most of the time at a speed of from 145 to 165 miles an hour.
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CLIPPER PASSES HORTA
(By Associated Press)
New York, June 29-Pan American Airways' 41-ton Dixie Clipper roared along on the second leg of its inaugural passenger flight from the United States to Europe today. Racing through tranquil skies, the giant 4-motored flying boat hit speeds up to 180 miles an hour on the 2,397-mile first leg from Port Washington, Long Island, to Horta, the Azores, landing there at 6:52 A. M. the company's office here announced. The flying time was 15 hours and 42 minutes.
The Clipper took off from Horta at 8:35 A. M. for Lisbon, a hop expected to be made in 7 hours.
Captain R. O. D. Sullivan, pilot commander, kept the ship at an altitude of 7,000 to 9,000 feet. A light tail wind helped it along and within 4 1/2 hours the Clipper was 870 miles out, more than a third of
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the way to Horta, which is 2,397 miles from New York.
Flying under starry skies over a calm sea, the big ship, it has a wingspread 62 feet greater than the over-all length of Christopher Columbus flagship, the Santa Maria, reached the half way mark, 1,200 miles out, by 12 noon. 
The schedule called for only a 1-hour refueling stop at Horta, and an overnight stop after the 1,050-mile hop to Lisbond, Portugal. The 1,203-mile flight to Marseilles, France, the terminus, will be made tomorrow. 
Thus the 4,650-mile journey will be completed within an elapsed time of 48 hours, approximately halving the time taken by the fastest ocean liners. The return trip will begin Sunday. 
Numbered among the passengers, selected from a list of 300 applicants, were several corporation executives. The fare cost $375 one way, $650 for the round trip.
Most persistent was W. J. Eck, who applied in 1931 for a berth on the first commercial transoceanic flight and kept calling up every few months since then about his reservation: "Just to hurry them up."