Tuesday, May 18, 1926

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The Headlines

NOBILE ANALYZES FLIGHT; Normal Speed Was 57 Miles an Hour -- Could Have Made 77. ICE FROM SCREW CHIEF FOE Could Have Found Good Weather if Alaskan Radio Stations Had Been Heard. STRENGTH OF SHIP SHOWN Gottwaldt, Wireless Expert of Norge, Describes How Ice Hampered Radio Equipment.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Black Bottom

Ray Henderson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Pope John Paul II (1920)
• Bertrand Russell (1872)
• Omar Khayyam (1048)
• Nicholas II (1868)
• Walter Gropius (1883)

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Tech Check

Liquid Fuel Rocket, Talking Movies (Vitaphone) & Aerosol Spray Can.

Cost of Living (1920)