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Headlines from January 22, 1939

Building Collapse Starts a Death Scare In Hell's Kitchen but No One Is Injured

TWO NEW YORKERS AMONG PASSENGERS; Fur Auction Executive on the Plane--Graduate Student at Harvard Another

BIG RESCUE FLEET; Sea and Air Craft in Vain Hunt After the SOS Went Out FLYING FORTRESS BALKED Icy Conditions Force It Back --Sighting of Plane Halts Elaborate Search Plans

LANDON SAYS PERIL IS IN ECONOMIC WAR; Democracies Are World Trade Targets of Totalitarian States, He Asserts

Log of Ill=Fated Flight

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