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...airship practice. Three years ago he formed a company to build and sell "air yachts" (four-passenger blimps) for $10,000 each. The scheme failed. Currently he lives at Lakewood, N. J., frequently breaks into print as an oracle on airship matters. Last week he had a chance to augment his meagre finances by reporting the Lakehurst inquiry for Hearst's International News Service. Yet he said he would donate the proceeds to a fund for the families of Akron victims...
...spite of these drawbacks, the plan embodied in the bill has a definite prospect of success. The augment that it constitutes a consumers' tax, designed to shift to one class a tremendous amount of purchasing power, is no objection to the plan. Obviously that is the purpose of any farm relief scheme. The increased purchasing power of the farmer will soon make itself felt in the demand for industrial products. There can be no true prosperity in this country as long as a large part of the population is on the verge of bankrupted. Throughout the latter half...
Meets with M.I.T., Princeton and Yale will augment the schedule regularly planned in the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association, of which the University is a member...
...whether the masterworks of the past are documents, to be classified, analyzed in the post-mortem manner, of the laboratory, or "the precious life-blood of a master-spirit treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life", a life of which we may gratefully partake to augment our own substance. The signs are everywhere decipherable that the universities and critics of today have the sickness of an acquisitive society of the intellect; they need to be more respectfully, curiously inquisitive before the monuments to the past. English 15 is the course for those who might be called the sublimely...
...flashed a cable from President Paley to his First Vice President Edward Klauber in Manhattan. Said President Paley in effect: "Big political news will be breaking before November. Election campaigns will approach fever heat in September and October. National issues will loom large in the public eye. Let CBS augment its facilities for reporting that news by presenting 'The March of Time' two months earlier as a sustaining feature entirely at its own expense...