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"WIMPY" WADE
Averaged 587 MPH
Test pilot T. S. (Wimpy) Wade is shown in the cockpit of the Hawker 1052 jet-propelled fighter plane in which he set a cross-channel record from London to Paris in 21 minutes, 27.7 second, hardly even time to smoke a good cigar. He averaged 587.179 miles an hour during the record-breaking trip to clip six minutes from the former record.


Cancer is treated by surgery, X-ray and radium. There are no serums or vaccines that have any value in curing this disease. Diagnosis is usually made by biopsy, which means the removal of a small part of the affected tissue for microscopic examination. X-ray examination is valuable when the growth lies in an inaccessible part of the body, such as the chest cavity or the abdominal cavity.

Early Action Imperative-Regardless of the decided method of treatment, it is most successful when the cancer is attacked in its early stages before there has been time for it to spread to other parts of the body.

Only in early examination by a competent physician can cancer be detected and successfully treated. Any abnormal symptoms that a patient may develop calls for an immediate thorough examination. The medical profession is of the opinion that possibly 50 per cent of cancer deaths could be prevented, if the malignancy could be diagnosed and treated in its early stages.

Cancer, being a progressive disease, is considered disqualifying for flying, unless it is discovered early and properly treated before it can spread. However, in flying personnel considerable time would have to elapse after treatment to make certain the malignancy was cured. The minimum time limit it usually one to two years, depending upon the type of cancer.


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Imagine That! By the Airline Pilots

THE LADY DOTH PROTEST

In California, if you aren't hep to the latest fad you've just been in hibernation too long. Probably no place else in the world does a fad catch on with such wildfire rapidity, but the latest fad, which is just one step short of mayhem, has state highway authorities going around muttering "There oughta be a law agin it." What has them in such a dither is the modern-day Steve Brodies that have made the Golden Gate bridge a Mecca for their high dives. Authorities are in such a stew that they have asked for an ordinance banning bridge jumping, with or without a parachute, from any bridge in the state. Here, at left, grabbing publicity as only California can grab it (with apologies to Florida, which shouldn't mind now that they are practically relatives by marriage) is Diane Shinn, a Chinese dancer, getting in a few practice jumps before the law 

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clamps down as she goes "over the side" of arched bridge in Japanese tea garden in the Golden Gate Park.



HOW TRUE THE ECHO

Winston Churchill said, during the German's attempted air blitz of London in World War II, which was turned back by a handful of Royal Air Force Pilots: "Never have so many owed so much to so few." Paraphrasing the Prime Minister, Captain Gene Burns, of American Airlines, recently came up with the following big portion of truth: "IN ALPHA, TOO FEW ARE WORKING HARD FOR TOO MANY."


LEAVE IT TO THE GALS

"Jones," roared the boss, "this age survey you conducted is all wrong. Everybody knows that women live longer than men, yet you show that there are 200 men in this city over 70 years of age, but not a women over 29."

LOVE BALANCED THE BOOKS

A sound salesman living in Minneapolis is really doing his bit to promote the air line business. During the last six months he has made 26 trips to New York City to visit his fiance [[fiancé]]. After flying more than 71,200 miles on these little jaunts, he and his future bride will be very happy when they are settles in their vine-covered cottage-together. Although the young couple are anxiously awaiting the big day, the local air line office wishes they believed the longer engagements, not being eager to write off the $3,441.62 that the traveler's previous trips put in their pockets.


GHOST RIDERS IN THE SKY

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"Ghost Riders in the Sky" is really what James Worsham of Powhatan, Virginia thought he found after a recent flight to Richmond. On closer inspection, he discovered he was unknowingly playing bird-sitter to a newly-constructed nest of eggs perched under the cowling of his plane. Pilot Worsham, who deduced the nest must have been built some six hours before, rushed back to his takeoff point for fear he would soon find himself in the role of fathering a batch of newly-hatched chicks.

The stowaways no doubt has illusions of being jet-propelled and were so influenced by the score of popular vocalists who of late are constantly singing the praises of "Riders in the Sky," that they wanted to be included in the group with-out having to wait until they could fly under their own power.

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