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The⅜ tiedown cables holding the planes snapped like twine, and the wind whipped the 139-ton craft about like Piper Cubs. As the big blow struck, a C-47 was ready to take off. The pilot saw what was coming, and "flew" at full power into the teeth of...
Six 200-ft. towers, painted red & white, crown each of the two mountain tops. Between them in the valley swoop cables 9,000 ft. long. On the valley floor are 23 other towers, some of them 145 ft. tall, and a huge copper grounding system is now being laid under...
What are the latest new ideas in house design? Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, which makes a specialty of scanning the horizon, last week displayed two from the horizon-or a bit beyond. Both were still in the model stage. ¶ The Geodesic House, which looks at quick...
A Colossal Effigy. In 1920, John went on one of his most famous rampages. Shortly after he had finished a portrait of Lord Leverhulme, founder of the Lever Bros, soap empire, the canvas was returned with the head cut out of the picture. "I wrote to his Lordship requiring an...
¶ The Louisiana delegation in a secret midnight meeting, caught by an enterprising ABC camera crew through a crack in the wall of the caucus room. ¶ Senator Paul Douglas, hoarse-voiced and face twisted with emotion, shouting for recognition on his motion to adjourn before the balloting could begin...