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...storm drove steadily on. In the Midwest, temperatures fell to zero or below. In Chicago, nine steel radio towers buckled and fell in eight hours as a gale roared across Lake Michigan. Maine was peppered with hailstones as big as buckshot. Buffalo was treated to lightning and thunderclaps. A collier broke from its pier at North Weymouth, Mass., was blown across the Fare River, crashed into another wharf...
...confirmed these essential facts, The XS-1, a small, thin-winged, rocket-propelled airplane, built by Buffalo's Bell Aircraft Corp., had been flown through the barrier several times in recent weeks at the closely guarded test center at Muroc, Calif. The chief test pilot was 24-year-old Air Force Captain Charles Yaeger, World War II fighter pilot. The other pilots were Howard Lilly and Herbert Hoover, civilian flyers of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The airmen had experienced almost none of the difficulties predicted by scientists to be lying in the transonic area in which other...
...sentence might have been stiffer if Flick and associates had not risked trouble with the Nazis by feeding, housing and clothing, their slave laborers better than the law decreed. Presiding Judge Charles B. Sears of Buffalo, N.Y., also found "some shade of justification" in Flick's plea that German industry itself was being persecuted in his person. As for the $40,000 yearly payments to the Nazi Party, Judge Sears said it was perhaps "not too high a premium to insure personal safety in the fearful days of the Third Reich...
...Buffalo Liver. Parkman lived with the plains Indians just before they took to the warpath to halt the whites. Often he traveled with only two companions, but, Boston gentleman that he was, always carried calling cards. He learned to eat boiled dog and to like raw buffalo liver, and discovered that the noble savage of Novelist James Fenimore Cooper was a library creation. Parkman thought Indians "not much better than brutes...
...close to each other above, almost shutting out the clear winter sky overhead. It is a pleasant meander to a pleasant place. The unpainted wood tables and slightly rickety straight-back chairs promise the compensation of good food. The promise is kept with true Neapolitan pizza-the best water-buffalo cheese melted with just the right amount of garlic into a flour pancake, light as the finest bread...