AERONAUTICS: Tour

A traveling preacher in the cause of aviation delivered his last sermon last week and returned to private life. This summer & fall he delivered 147 pleas for the cause he loves; flew 22,350 miles in 260 hours; visited 48 states and 82 cities; attended 69 dinners; rode 1,285 miles in parades; was seen by 30,000,000 people. For this endless distance he used only one transport—The Spirit of St. Louis, a Ryan monoplane which flew last May across the ocean, doing its part to make its pilot, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, for several...

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