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Before they could get there, the bomber pancaked into the smooth field, exploded, broke in two, spouted flames. In spite of the danger of more explosions, the two young officers wrapped their coats over their heads, plunged straight into the blaze, dragged out Leslie Tower, chief Boeing test pilot and Major Ployer P. Hill, flying chief at Wright Field, both badly burned. The other three occupants managed to crawl out by themselves...
...there can be no flaming credit inflation until businessmen are again disposed to borrow. The current agitation is over the question of whether the Federal Reserve Board should use its fire-fighting equipment-such as its power to double present reserve requirements- before or after the blaze begins. At the Investment Bankers Association convention last week, Economist Benjamin M. Anderson Jr. of Chase National Bank demanded action now, declaring: "It would be a very serious matter indeed if we came into a period of vigorous, active business and strong speculative temper on the part of the American people with anything...
...Hotel. They ordered the bartender to lie down on the floor, keep his mouth shut. Passing down a narrow hall, the pair came to a rear dining room where three other men were seated around a table under an orange light. The two intruders jerked out revolvers, began to blaze away. The door of an adjoining toilet inched open. The gunmen sent one shot through it, turned, ran. The man in the toilet staggered out, made his way up the hall...
...first acts of reconstruction was the Croton Aqueduct, financed by the sale of lottery tickets. Even after the Aqueduct was finished, fire-fighting remained in the hands of private companies whose rivalries frequently threatened the city, since partisans of one company or another would seize the hydrant near a blaze, prevent its use until friends arrived. Such colorful items of dubious historical importance Henry Collins Brown includes in a volume on Victorian New York, succeeds in writing an amusing if somewhat musty book characterized by an old-fashioned respect for old-fashioned things...
...long ago, a curious European wearing deerskin moccasins was reported to have followed the native performers across the fire-pit. His moccasins were not singed. In Manhattan last week Joseph Dunninger of the Universal Council for Psychic Research said that fire-walking may be made comfortable by lighting the blaze first along the centre line of the pit; by the time the edges have reached maximum heat, the centre line, along which the performer walks, has begun to cool. In an expose of Oriental magic, Professional Magician John Mulholland declared that the trick is done either by stepping on fast...