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Show Minneapolis Turning From Auto to Plane Minneapolis, Minn. Dreams of promoters pro-moters who spent nearly $1,000,000 to make Minneapolis "the center of automobile auto-mobile racing" nre being subjected to final and very literal blasts as aviation avia-tion rebuilds Its nest here. Dynamite has now crumbled the curved concrete race track, more than two miles long, to permit expansion of the Wold-Chamberlain flying field which has bece limited to the area within the curvature for several years. The auto races were financial failures and the property was sold by the sheriff for $V),000. Then came the rise of aviation, and from a few planes the field soon be cnine the home f many. Now It Is the terminus for the airmail route, of several nlr. lines nnd a training center for the Thirty-fourth Division Air Service. Improvement Is being undertaken by the city, which acquired the field under un-der a bond Issue of $243,000. The concrete con-crete truck, forming a saucer, must be entirely removed because It Is a bus-ard bus-ard and destroys valuable space. More than 5O0,(XK) yards of earth nre being moved to bring the field to grade. Concrete taxlways will supplement supple-ment grass runways and complete equipment for night flying Installed. Two hundred and forty acres adjoining adjoin-ing are to be added. |