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* MOLLISON’S PLANS CONTRACT FOR £30,000 FILMS OF ASSASSINATION (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received October 15, 2 p.in.) LONDON, October 14. For £30,000 Mr and Mrs .T. A. Mollison plan to-morrow a return flight to Newfoundland with the films of King Alexander's assassination, leaving them time to o-.rhau! their machine for the con- ; diary air race. The Atlantic flight will be (he culmination of American film interests battle to outwit the French authorities, who confiscated films when about to leave Cherbourg aboard the Bremen. The Americans vainly tried to hire- an English plane, and then a film magnate telephoned Mr. and .Mrs. Mollison on .Saturday asking their price for an Atlantic flight. - ■
“Thirty thousand,” replied the Mollisons. “Fifteen thousand each.’ That' is really the price we place on our-lives,” said Amy. “We intend to refuel at Dublin and fly the 2070 miles to Newfoundland. which is actually 483 miles If ss than the air race’s fust hop to Bat*dad. We should reach Newfoundland in 10 hodrs, deliver the films to an American plane, atid return almost itnrhcdiatelv.” 1 '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18528, 15 October 1934, Page 7
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181RETURN ATLANTIC FLIGHT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18528, 15 October 1934, Page 7
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