ON EVIL DAYS
BARGAINS IN AEROPLANES
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(Received 8.30 n.m.) NEW YORK, January 20,
Tt. was bargain day on when the holdings of Charles Levine, the first Trans-Atlantic air passenger were sold to the highest bidder to satisfy a rent claim. Three aeroplanes and a considerable amount of equip ment. which cost seventy thousand sterling, went for six hundred. This included the metal monoplane “Uncle Sam”, which Levine built at a cost of fifty thousand sterling, for a projected world flight. Levine made a fortune in the salvage of war materials, hut recently fell on evil days and was detained for some time in an Austrian prison, while a counterfeiting charge against him was being investigated.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1931, Page 4
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121ON EVIL DAYS Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1931, Page 4
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