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Religion: $1 Ride

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TIME

U. S. citizens tempted by roadside signs offering SIGHTSEEING FLIGHTS-FIVE MINUTES FOR ONLY $1 last week had a stern object lesson. Taking off at night from a Pittsburgh airport with ten passengers who had each paid $1, a trimotored Stinson belonging to Pittsburgh Skyways, Inc., a sightseeing firm, had flown but two miles toward a nearby fair when two motors apparently failed. Plunging into a clump of thicket in inaccessible Buttermilk Hollow, it gushed a fountain of flame which incinerated the pilot, all except one passenger, a girl who jumped at the last minute before the crash, miraculously escaped injury.

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