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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liquor business. When still a very young man, he went to work for a saloon keeper and in two years owned the saloon. Selling out his distillery business with the approach of prohibition (1919), Mr. Ungerleider tried to retire, found the burden of leisure too heavy to endure. He began to play the market and quickly discovered the expenses of that pastime. He soon decided that only the insider had a chance to make money on the Street so, in 1919, he bought his seat on the Exchange, continued in his new, as in his old, business...
Watchers on the ground had lost sight of the little plane in the sky. But when the supercharger was turned on, smoke began to pour from the exhaust. Apollo's place in the sky was once more visible...
...went upward at the rate of 3,000 ft. per minute. In four minutes he had climbed two miles. He took a sniff of his oxygen to keep his head clear. The climb became only 2,000 feet a minute. He climbed three, four, five, six miles. The engine began to slow down for lack of air. He turned on the super charger to increase air pressure in the carburetor...
...Adopted a resolution for a survey of Richmond, Va. battlefields. Received the tariff bill from the Ways & Means Committee: began debate upon...
Author Stribling, sometimes called the Sinclair Lewis of the South, began his writing career with stories for Sunday-school publications. He passed on to plotty melodramas for paper-pulp magazines, rose to heights in Birthright and Teef-tallow. Strange Moon drops back to the pulp level. Possibly it is a resurrection from his serial days. Or perhaps it just reflects Author Stribling's habit of writing in a reclining position...